Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Oct 2008 06:28:30 -0700 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] corruption checker: print the DMI board name |
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On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 12:06:53 +0100 Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> > > > >From 4f829eef5a31b68a0cbaf83a75ac8b0a1ed05afb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 > > >2001 > > From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> > > Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2008 09:13:23 -0700 > > Subject: [PATCH] corruption checker: print the DMI board name > > > > when the memory corruptor checker hits (as it has done now based on > > kerneloops.org data), it would be extremely useful to know the DMI > > board name so we can add a blacklist for such a machine... without > > having to ask the user for lots of extra info. > > I'm not sure if blacklisting whole brand for one case of bit > corruption is fair -- perhaps the memory was overheating?
this is where kerneloops.org comes in; we can separate the "happens a lot" from "happens on blue moons"
> > > > Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> > > But ACK -- we certainly want to see the data.
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