On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:54:33AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Potential impact: > This adds another line to the Oops output, causing the first few lines to > potentially scroll off the screen. This also adds a few more pointer > dereferences in the Oops path, because it adds to the die_chain notifier > chain, reducing the likelihood that the Oops will be printed if there is > very bad memory corruption.
Plus we don't get the utsname information on oops dumps during the kernel initialisation. Not good - I'd rather keep things as is rather than loose that facility which we've just gained on ARM. Instead, can we have this as a call-able function which returns the pointer, or just make the pointer global. That way we can also eliminate the need for another additional line in the oops output. -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
