Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 17 Dec 2007 22:58:54 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week |
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Theodore Tso wrote: > On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:21:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: >> which also gets bonus points for being totally unreadable, and thus 100% >> in the spirit of uuid's. > > Heh. UUID's don't have to be readable; just universally unique. Code > on the other hand should be readable. :-)
Linus' suggested... improvement should either be done in all 3 places or none ;) Since you're the maintainer... what's your suggestion?
> > If you want something more readable, you could print the MAC address > and boot time. Of course some crazy people seem to think leaking the > MAC address will somehow be a privacy violation. And printing a > random UUID is a lot simpler....
boot UUID is nice in that it's different each boot, so that an oops that happens twice will have a different UUID even if it's the same machine, while repeat-reports of the same oops will have the same UUID. So I very much like to use some form of UUID; since the boot UUID has the same properties I was happy to share this; if it gets too ugly or evil code wise I can always pick something else ;-)
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