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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Sven Ladegast <sven@linux4geeks.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 15:36:50 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1125412611.8276.9.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0508300954190.1984@cassini.linux4geeks.de>

On Maw, 2005-08-30 at 10:01 +0200, Sven Ladegast wrote:
> The idea isn't bad but lots of people could think that this is some kind 
> of home-phoning or spy software. I guess lots of people would turn this 
> feature off...and of course you can't enable it by default. But combined 
> with an automatic oops/panic/bug-report this would be _very_ useful I think.

Wrong way around - you need to let people turn it on. Perhaps distribute
it with the kernel so you can 

		make register
		[Reports hardware, stashed a unique sha-1 hashed cookie]
		[Asks for permission, installs UDP ping daemon]
		

		make unregister


but it would have to be opt in. That might lower coverage but should
increase quality, especially id the id in the cookie can be put into
bugzilla reports, and the hardware reporting is done so it can be
machine processed (ie so you can ask stuff like 'reliability with Nvidia
IDE')

Alan


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-08-30 14:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 36+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-30  3:09 KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30  8:01 ` Sven Ladegast
2005-08-30  8:29   ` Rogier Wolff
2005-08-30  8:53     ` Sven Ladegast
2005-08-30  9:40       ` Rogier Wolff
2005-08-30  9:54         ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2005-08-30 15:10         ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30 16:33           ` Alan Cox
2005-08-30 16:16             ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30 16:56               ` Alan Cox
2005-08-30 16:40                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-31 18:32               ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-01 15:19                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30 16:36             ` Jesper Juhl
2005-08-30 22:11         ` Bill Davidsen
2005-08-31  1:49           ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-31 19:14             ` tony.luck
2005-08-31 19:47               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-09-05 18:26                 ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30 14:45     ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30 14:36   ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-08-30 22:43     ` Sven Ladegast
2005-08-30 23:25       ` Alan Cox
2005-08-30 23:19         ` Sven Ladegast
2005-08-31 13:34           ` Alan Cox
2005-08-31 14:28             ` Sven Ladegast
2005-08-31 21:23               ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-30 14:56   ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-08-31 18:20     ` Pavel Machek
2005-09-01 15:23       ` Andrea Arcangeli
2005-09-01 12:26     ` Sven Ladegast
2005-09-05 22:05 ` Marc Giger
2005-09-05 23:13   ` Andrea Arcangeli
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-30 17:08 Wilkerson, Bryan P
2005-08-30 17:44 ` linux-os (Dick Johnson)
2005-08-30 20:31 ` Andrea Arcangeli

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