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

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Message-ID: <20071218023141.GM7070@thunk.org>
Date:	Mon, 17 Dec 2007 21:31:41 -0500
From:	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, protasnb@...il.com
Subject: Re: Top kernel oopses/warnings this week

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 04:21:12PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> which also gets bonus points for being totally unreadable, and thus 100% 
> in the spirit of uuid's.

Heh.  UUID's don't have to be readable; just universally unique.  Code
on the other hand should be readable.   :-)

If you want something more readable, you could print the MAC address
and boot time.  Of course some crazy people seem to think leaking the
MAC address will somehow be a privacy violation.  And printing a
random UUID is a lot simpler....

						- Ted
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