Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758403AbXLQNOg (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:14:36 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754936AbXLQNO2 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:14:28 -0500 Received: from einhorn.in-berlin.de ([192.109.42.8]:38666 "EHLO einhorn.in-berlin.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751775AbXLQNO1 (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Dec 2007 08:14:27 -0500 X-Envelope-From: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de Message-ID: <4766760A.50902@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Date: Mon, 17 Dec 2007 14:13:46 +0100 From: Stefan Richter User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.9) Gecko/20071122 SeaMonkey/1.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jon Masters CC: Dave Jones , Arjan van de Ven , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , protasnb@gmail.com Subject: Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week References: <4762CF8C.90808@linux.intel.com> <4763F771.10105@s5r6.in-berlin.de> <20071217025129.GA12815@redhat.com> <1197894814.18713.36.camel@perihelion> In-Reply-To: <1197894814.18713.36.camel@perihelion> X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1387 Lines: 36 Jon Masters wrote: > On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 21:51 -0500, Dave Jones wrote: >> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 04:49:05PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote: >> >> > Reports about tainted kernels have arguably less value. It would be >> > good to hide such reports until a report of the same oops in an >> > untainted kernel was found. >> >> I disagree with this. It's useful to have a "we've seen this before, >> and every time, it was tainted with xyz module" datapoint, especially >> if no untainted copies of that oops turn up. > > +1 > > In fact, that's even more useful in many cases, if it helps demonstrate > that the oops is associated with a particular buggy binary driver. I can > see a lot of potentially interesting statistics coming from that too. -1 :-) I don't care at all what this xyz module does or does not do by and in itself. (Of course since at least two people care and since this makes life easier for Arjan, just keep listing reports about tainted kernels like you do now. It just so happens that different people are interested in different things.) -- Stefan Richter -=====-=-=== ==-- =---= http://arcgraph.de/sr/ -- 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/