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

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Date:	Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:49:05 +0100
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
CC:	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

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> The http://www.kerneloops.org website collects kernel oops and warning
> reports from various mailing lists and bugzillas;

A few comments:

Report counts may be too high due to duplicate recognition of the very
same report.¹

Reports against 2.6.X-rcY-mmZ are listed in the same category as reports
against 2.6.X-rcY.  To distinguish -mm reports from vanilla reports, one
has to look into the details of each bug entry.¹

A general weakness is that it is ultimately impossible to know whether a
report was against an unpatched kernel, unless one drills down to the
individual mailinglist threads.

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.

¹) example: http://www.kerneloops.org/oops.php?number=2335
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