linux-kernel - Re: Top 10 kernel oopses for the week ending January 5th, 2008

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Message-ID: <4783C95C.7050303@linux.intel.com>
Date:	Tue, 08 Jan 2008 11:05:00 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@...cle.com>,
	Kevin Winchester <kjwinchester@...il.com>,
	"J. Bruce Fields" <bfields@...ldses.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	NetDev <netdev@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Top 10 kernel oopses for the week ending January 5th, 2008

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 8 Jan 2008, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
>> the database has the information so it's just a matter of slightly different
>> php code ;)
>> Before I do that... do you want the BUG's separate, part of the warnings or
>> part of the oopses?
>> (I rather make this change once ;)
> 
> I'd like them all separate, they tend to be very different and contain 
> different information.
> 
> Put the warnings last, as the least important. Oopses at the top, since 
> they tend to be the ones that are less expected.

ok done; I had to fizzle a bit because some things aren't *exactly* a BUG() statement
but I track them anyway (things like the "sleeping in invalid context" check), so I
had to somewhat arbitrarily assign categories for those. I might fine tune these over time
some; if you or someone else sees problems with categorization please let me know

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