Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754076Ab1CJX00 (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:26:26 -0500 Received: from smtp.nokia.com ([147.243.128.26]:59914 "EHLO mgw-da02.nokia.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753349Ab1CJX0Z (ORCPT ); Thu, 10 Mar 2011 18:26:25 -0500 Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2011 01:22:28 +0200 From: Phil Carmody To: ext Thomas Gleixner Cc: Andrew Morton , gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 1/1] sysfs: add more info to the oops dump Message-ID: <20110310232228.GI7975@esdhcp04044.research.nokia.com> References: <20110310212746.GA3361@suse.de> <1299796027-3343-1-git-send-email-ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> <1299796027-3343-2-git-send-email-ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com> <20110310143806.7542e929.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20110310230621.GH7975@esdhcp04044.research.nokia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-Nokia-AV: Clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1439 Lines: 36 On 11/03/11 00:13 +0100, ext Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Fri, 11 Mar 2011, Phil Carmody wrote: > > On 10/03/11 23:59 +0100, ext Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Andrew Morton wrote: ... > > > > I don't think it's a terribly useful feature. Except for when it _is_ > > > > useful, when it's very useful ;) The world wouldn't end if we decided > > > > to remove it. > > > > > > Amen to that. > > > > > > It's more of an distraction than anything which is relevant to 99.999% > > > of the problems we have to deal with. > > > > As I indicated before, I've previously thought that too, but thought I > > could 'fix' it by adding to it when I hit the once-in-three-years case. > > The interesting question is: > > How did that info help and was it really the ultimate reason why you > found the underlying bug ? It's academic now, as I fully support the removal. Perhaps the information was most useful simply because it was given to me quickly, there would have been other ways of divining it certainly (I can read hex stack dumps, for example). Even I don't need this patch any more! At least my intrusion has been useful for instigating a little cleanup! Cheers, Phil -- 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/