Subject: Re: [PATCH, RFC] panic-note: Annotation from user space for panics
From: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
To: David VomLehn <dvomlehn@cisco.com>
Cc: linux-embedded@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org,
       dwm2@infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
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Date: Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:06:51 -0600
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On Wed, 2009-11-11 at 21:13 -0500, David VomLehn wrote:
> 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.

I'd like to hear a bit more use case motivation on this feature. Also,
why do you want more than a page?

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