Re: [PATCH, RFC] panic-note: Annotation from user space for panics

2009-11-12 Thread David VomLehn
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:50:41PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > David VomLehn wrote: >> Allows annotation of panics to include platform information. It's no big >> deal to collect information, but way helpful when you are collecting >> failure reports from a eventual base of millions of systems d

Re: [PATCH, RFC] panic-note: Annotation from user space for panics

2009-11-12 Thread David VomLehn
On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:06:51PM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote: > On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 21:13 -0500, David VomLehn wrote: > > Allows annotation of panics to include platform information. It's no big > > deal to collect information, but way helpful when you are collecting > > failure reports from a ev

Re: [PATCH, RFC] panic-note: Annotation from user space for panics

2009-11-12 Thread David VomLehn
(Switched from top posting) On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 01:00:17PM -0500, Marco Stornelli wrote: > David VomLehn ha scritto: > > Allows annotation of panics to include platform information. It's no big > > deal to collect information, but way helpful when you are collecting > > failure reports from a

Re: [PATCH, RFC] panic-note: Annotation from user space for panics

2009-11-12 Thread Paul Gortmaker
David VomLehn wrote: Allows annotation of panics to include platform information. It's no big deal to collect information, but way helpful when you are collecting failure reports from a eventual base of millions of systems deployed in other people's homes. One of the biggest reasons this is an R

Re: [PATCH, RFC] panic-note: Annotation from user space for panics

2009-11-12 Thread Matt Mackall
On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 21:13 -0500, David VomLehn wrote: > Allows annotation of panics to include platform information. It's no big > deal to collect information, but way helpful when you are collecting > failure reports from a eventual base of millions of systems deployed in > other people's homes.

Re: [PATCH, RFC] panic-note: Annotation from user space for panics

2009-11-12 Thread Marco Stornelli
Sincerely, I don't understand why we should involve the kernel to gather this kind of information when we can use other (user-space) tools, only to have "all" in a single report maybe? I think it's a bit weak reason to include this additional behavior in the kernel. David VomLehn ha scritto: > All