Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week

Zach Brown
2007-12-17T18:25:45Z

>> Report counts may be too high due to duplicate recognition of the very
>> same report.¹
>
> this is true however it's .. a hard issue. It's really hard to
> distinguish a duplicate report from
> two reports of the same bug.

Can we hack some data in to oops output to help? Say a giant per-boot
anonymous random number (yeah, I know, harder than it sounds) and then
an incrementing oops counter. That'd also let you discover that the
latter oopses in a chain of oopses might be fall-out from the head of
the chain.

- z