Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 12 Nov 2009 17:09:25 -0500 | From | David VomLehn <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH, RFC] panic-note: Annotation from user space for panics |
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On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:50:41PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > 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. ... > Why hook into panic() directly like this, vs. using the panic > notifier list? If you use that, and then put the data handling > magic that you need into your own kernel module that knows how > to interface with the reporting apps that you have, you can > do the whole thing without having to alter existing code, I think.
I agree--a panic notifier list is probably a better approach.
David VL
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