From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>,
Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
"Frank Ch. Eigler" <fche@redhat.com>,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Jon Masters <jcm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers Support for Proprierary Modules
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:32:40 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080125163240.7d68cb24@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <15663.1201248183@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 03:03:03 -0500
Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 08:56:09 +0100, Jan Engelhardt said:
> > So what is needed is an Oops with an explaining message
> > if (kernel_tainted) "blame that proprietary module first",
> > and make sure the user sees that oops even if in X.
>
> The person who solves the "even if in X" problem will probably be nominated
> for sainthood by the Linux community. "It just hung with flashing LED's" is
> just too common an event....
I've been poking at it a bit but it will need X server help, or
eventually the kernel mode switch code.
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-25 15:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-22 19:13 CONFIG_MARKERS Jon Masters
2008-01-23 3:00 ` CONFIG_MARKERS Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-01-23 3:10 ` CONFIG_MARKERS Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-01-23 4:17 ` CONFIG_MARKERS Jon Masters
2008-01-23 13:14 ` CONFIG_MARKERS Frank Ch. Eigler
2008-01-23 14:48 ` CONFIG_MARKERS Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-01-23 15:01 ` CONFIG_MARKERS Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-01-23 16:33 ` CONFIG_MARKERS Jon Masters
2008-01-23 17:11 ` CONFIG_MARKERS Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-01-24 5:25 ` CONFIG_MARKERS Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-24 6:19 ` CONFIG_MARKERS Jon Masters
2008-01-24 12:47 ` [PATCH] Linux Kernel Markers Support for Proprierary Modules Mathieu Desnoyers
2008-01-24 18:27 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-24 20:35 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-25 1:27 ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-25 7:56 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-25 8:03 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2008-01-25 16:32 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-01-25 15:31 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-25 16:01 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-26 3:27 ` Rusty Russell
2008-01-26 4:21 ` Jon Masters
2008-01-27 10:48 ` Jan Engelhardt
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2008-02-02 19:51 Mathieu Desnoyers
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