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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 19:00:17 +0100
From: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] panic-note: Annotation from user space for panics
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Sincerely, I don't understand why we should involve the kernel to gather
this kind of information when we can use other (user-space) tools, only
to have "all" in a single report maybe? I think it's a bit weak reason
to include this additional behavior in the kernel.

David VomLehn ha scritto:
> Allows annotation of panics to include platform information. It's no big
> deal to collect information, but way helpful when you are collecting
> failure reports from a eventual base of millions of systems deployed in
> other people's homes.
> 

Marco
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