Subject: Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week
From: Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>
To: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>,
       Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
       protasnb@gmail.com
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On Mon, 2007-12-17 at 21:31 -0500, Theodore Tso wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:21:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > which also gets bonus points for being totally unreadable, and thus 100% 
> > in the spirit of uuid's.
> 
> Heh.  UUID's don't have to be readable; just universally unique.  Code
> on the other hand should be readable.   :-)
> 
> If you want something more readable, you could print the MAC address
> and boot time.  Of course some crazy people seem to think leaking the
> MAC address will somehow be a privacy violation.  And printing a
> random UUID is a lot simpler....

Printing a random UUID is necessary, for now anyway, because you cannot
assume every machine is going to have a MAC address, even if it is
deemed appropriate to print this on oops.

The Network is the Computer!

Jon.


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