Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 3 Feb 2003 16:50:42 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.59 morse code panics |
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Hi!
> > On Fri, 2003-01-31 at 13:22, Dave Jones wrote: > > > Or you could put down the crackpipe and run a serial console between > > > the two boxes. Or even netconsole would make more sense > > > (and be a lot more reliable). > > > > A lot of newer laptops do not have serial ports. While morse code may > > be a little silly the general purpose hook it needs to be done > > cleanly is considerably more useful > > And how many users and how many kernel hackers are able to decode > morse on the fly? Are you going to explain to users > "to debug this you'll need to learn morse" ?
If it is message "could not mount ext2 on /dev/hda2" I guess I could catch enough of it to be usefull.
> I admit I was the on who got this ball running by suggesting it "as an > exercise for the reader" in the original panic blink code, but > guys this was intended as a JOKE, not serious. Please get over it > and don't merge that silly code.
Its not *that* silly. Simple extension of "blink leds on panic".
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