linux-kernel - Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week

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Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2007 07:33:34 -0500
From:	Jon Masters <jcm@...hat.com>
To:	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>
Cc:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation>, protasnb@...il.com
Subject: Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week


On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 21:51 -0500, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 04:49:05PM +0100, Stefan Richter wrote:
>  
>  > Reports about tainted kernels have arguably less value.  It would be
>  > good to hide such reports until a report of the same oops in an
>  > untainted kernel was found.
>  
> I disagree with this.  It's useful to have a "we've seen this before,
> and every time, it was tainted with xyz module" datapoint, especially
> if no untainted copies of that oops turn up.

+1

In fact, that's even more useful in many cases, if it helps demonstrate
that the oops is associated with a particular buggy binary driver. I can
see a lot of potentially interesting statistics coming from that too.

Jon.


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