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SubjectRe: [RFC] QR encoding for Oops messages
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> 2014-03-19 21:18 GMT+01:00 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>:
>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:59:47PM -0700, Teodora Baluta wrote:
>> > This feature encodes Oops messages into a QR barcode that is scannable by
>> > any device with a camera.
>>
>> ...
>>
>> > include/linux/print_oops.h | 11 +
>> > include/linux/qrencode.h | 546 +++++++++++++
>> > kernel/Makefile | 1 +
>> > kernel/panic.c | 5 +
>> > kernel/print_oops.c | 173 +++++
>> > kernel/printk/printk.c | 9 +-
>> > lib/Kconfig | 5 +
>> > lib/Kconfig.debug | 11 +
>> > lib/Makefile | 3 +
>> > lib/qr/Makefile | 6 +
>> > lib/qr/bitstream.c | 233 ++++++
>> > lib/qr/bitstream.h | 37 +
>> > lib/qr/mask.c | 320 ++++++++
>> > lib/qr/mask.h | 39 +
>> > lib/qr/mmask.c | 175 +++++
>> > lib/qr/mmask.h | 36 +
>> > lib/qr/mqrspec.c | 259 +++++++
>> > lib/qr/mqrspec.h | 155 ++++
>> > lib/qr/qrencode.c | 871 +++++++++++++++++++++
>> > lib/qr/qrencode.h | 546 +++++++++++++
>> > lib/qr/qrinput.c | 1834 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>> > lib/qr/qrinput.h | 129 ++++
>> > lib/qr/qrspec.c | 543 +++++++++++++
>> > lib/qr/qrspec.h | 178 +++++
>> > lib/qr/rscode.c | 325 ++++++++
>> > lib/qr/rscode.h | 38 +
>> > lib/qr/split.c | 331 ++++++++
>> > lib/qr/split.h | 44 ++
>> > 28 files changed, 6860 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> This idea is certainly great.
>
> However, there are quite a few problems with the code in terms of code style and
> other terms as well. I am not sure how could we help you make this code
> appliable, but it would be great if you put up a branch somewhere. This way
> I could send you a few commits that do some fixups.

Wow, that'd be great! I have set up my clone of the kernel source up
on gitlab [0] and github [1]. I will update the remote branch asap (I
made some coding style fixups that aren't present on github/gitlab
right now, only in a remote branch). Is this ok?

>
>>
>> That's a ton of code we're adding into one of the most fragile parts of the kernel.
>
> Indeed, this should get split up.
>
>>
>> A lot of what libqrencode does would seem to be superfluous to the requirements
>> here, as we don't output kernel oopses in kanji for eg, and won't care about
>> multiple versions of the qr spec.
>>
>> How much of this could we drop ?
>
> A lot, most likely.

Indeed.

>
> Also, I wonder if we could do the same for panic()?
> I hate it when I receive a panic and I have no idea what's the cause
> since my display is filled up with the stack trace.

Most likely panic is harder to do for reasons discussed in this thread here [2].


[0] https://gitlab.com/teobaluta/opw
[1] https://github.com/teobaluta/qr-linux-kernel
[2] https://lwn.net/Articles/503677/

Thanks,
Teodora
>
> --
> Regards,
> Levente Kurusa


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