Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week

Theodore Tso
2007-12-18T02:31:59Z

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:21:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> which also gets bonus points for being totally unreadable, and thus 100%
> in the spirit of uuid's.

Heh. UUID's don't have to be readable; just universally unique. Code
on the other hand should be readable. :-)

If you want something more readable, you could print the MAC address
and boot time. Of course some crazy people seem to think leaking the
MAC address will somehow be a privacy violation. And printing a
random UUID is a lot simpler....

- Ted