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Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:12:24 +0000
From: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.5.59 morse code panics
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On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:09:46PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

 > A lot of newer laptops do not have serial ports.

so use something sensible like a crashdump to floppy.
 
 > While morse code may
 > be a little silly the general purpose hook  it needs to be done 
 > cleanly is considerably more useful

sure. things like lkcd,netconsole etc could all use that
infrastructure.   The beyond-silly bit was the 'other machine
to decode morse' argument.

		Dave

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