On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 11:51:36 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Alex Tsariounov) wrote: >On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 01:00:08PM -0800, Luck, Tony wrote: >> >Is this generally interesting? I'm wondering if it isn't currently >> >done because of some issue with oops message size, or excessive >> >printk's causing problems elsewhere? >> >> On a VGA console the "iip" is _sometimes_ still visible on the screen >> after an oops (and if your users can only be trained to copy down one >> number from an oops, this is the most useful one to have). Adding these >> extra lines would guarantee that iip always scrolls off the top. > >Doesn't hitting Shift-PgUp bring the scrolled-off portions back >into view on a VGA console, or does that key not always work?
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