Re: [patch] get rid of "cut here" from bug output

[Borislav Petkov <bp@amd64.org>]

From: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 17, 2010 at 02:21:56PM +0200

> It's annoying to have chunks of dmesg output instead just the whole
> output.  A lot of times the very interesting information is before
> the bug happens.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27@gmail.com>
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
> index 3b16cd9..2db532a 100644
> --- a/kernel/panic.c
> +++ b/kernel/panic.c
> @@ -373,7 +373,7 @@ static void warn_slowpath_common(const char *file, int line, void *caller,
>  {
>  	const char *board;
>  
> -	printk(KERN_WARNING "------------[ cut here ]------------\n");
> +	printk(KERN_WARNING "-----[ paste whole dmesg to bugzilla ]-----\n");

Good idea, we end up requesting the whole dmesg most of the time anyway.
However not all bugs are reported through bugzilla, and, frankly
bugzilla is kinda sucky when it comes down to communicating with the bug
reporter. How about the more generic "send whole dmesg when reporting"
instead?

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
Boris.

Operating Systems Research Center
Advanced Micro Devices, Inc.