On Thu, Sep 08, 2011 at 02:06:29PM +0200, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote: > I can't expect the kernel to be in a good shape when it calls panic(9) > so allocating/copying strings is not possible. So it has to be done at > compile time, or the use of panicstr has to be changed.
There is no reason to allocate a string, just reserve e.g. 160 Bytes or so and use snprintf to that. But yes, the current usage is suboptimal. Joerg
