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Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2002 16:27:22 -0300 (BRT)
From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br>
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On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> So I claim a BUG() that locks up the machine is useless. If the user
> can't just run ksymoops and email out the BUG message, that BUG() is
> _not_ fine on SMP.

Agreed.  Along those same lines, it would be nice if the kernel
could spit out symbolic names so the user can't screw up the
backtrace and we've got a better chance of extracting a useful
bug report from our users ;)

regards,

Rik
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