[Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] QR encoded oops for the kernel

Steven Rostedt rostedt at goodmis.org
Fri May 30 18:55:08 UTC 2014


On Mon, 12 May 2014 09:53:40 -0700
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at zytor.com> wrote:

> On 05/12/2014 09:36 AM, Levente Kurusa wrote:
> > 
> > If only, I had counted how many bad quality photos of people's
> > screens did I get so far. :-)
> > 
> 
> This is not at all surprising.
> 
> Keep in mind that the QR code stuff is only going to be helpful if it
> contains more information and/or decodes better than text screen photos.

What would be nice is if it recorded the first part of a bug oops, and
ignored the later part of the dmesg. You know, the important stuff that
scrolls off the console. I hate it when people send me the last oops
message that was caused by three oops messages that happened before it.

Pretty much every screen shot that I received was of an oops that was
caused by a prior oops and was deemed useless.

-- Steve


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