Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week

Arjan van de Ven
2007-12-17T18:43:16Z

Zach Brown wrote:
>>> 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.

there already is a per-boot UUID afaik, just a matter of printing that..
I'll look into that, but it does add extra info to the oops print

> 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.

this is there already and taken care of ;)