Messages in this thread |  | | Subject | Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34 | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 10 Sep 2002 21:18:09 +0100 |
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On Tue, 2002-09-10 at 20:27, Rik van Riel wrote: > On Tue, 10 Sep 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > So I claim a BUG() that locks up the machine is useless. If the user > > can't just run ksymoops and email out the BUG message, that BUG() is > > _not_ fine on SMP. > > Agreed. Along those same lines, it would be nice if the kernel > could spit out symbolic names so the user can't screw up the > backtrace and we've got a better chance of extracting a useful > bug report from our users ;)
There is a patch for this. However its fairly useless since all the users are in X11 and while -ac will give you morse as well thats not terribly friendly.
There are some real mode patches that try and get you back into a sane video mode and dump you into a saner environment.
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