Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750987AbWBXNNr (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:13:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750994AbWBXNNr (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:13:47 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:48061 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750946AbWBXNNq (ORCPT ); Fri, 24 Feb 2006 08:13:46 -0500 Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2006 05:13:03 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Andi Kleen Cc: dilinger@debian.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 stack trace cleanup Message-Id: <20060224051303.64ff912b.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <200602241400.42432.ak@suse.de> References: <1140777679.5073.17.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200602241147.03041.ak@suse.de> <20060224045044.07fc5921.akpm@osdl.org> <200602241400.42432.ak@suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1056 Lines: 28 Andi Kleen wrote: > > On Friday 24 February 2006 13:50, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Andi Kleen wrote: > > > > > > I can offer you a deal though: if you fix VGA scrollback to have > > > at least 1000 lines by default we can change the oops formatting too. > > > > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc4/2.6.16-rc4-mm2/broken-out/vgacon-add-support-for-soft-scrollback.patch > > Once that is in and works we can consider changing the oopses. > I don't think we should change the oops format. Apart from no longer printing a hex-base+decimal-offset, which is braindead. > > Problem is, scrollback doesn't work after panic(). I don't know why.. > > Someone claimed it was related to the panic keyboard blinking. > Strange. It looks pretty harmless. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/