linux-kernel - [PATCH] oops: increment the oops UUID every time we oops

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Message-ID: <20081123125835.45b868c6@infradead.org>
Date:	Sun, 23 Nov 2008 12:58:35 -0800
From:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: [PATCH] oops: increment the oops UUID every time we oops

>From c9430c243c6cdd6c3152be79561b9febac193056 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:41:03 -0800
Subject: [PATCH] oops: increment the oops UUID every time we oops

... because we do want repeated same-oops to be seen by automated
tools like kerneloops.org

Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>
---
 kernel/panic.c |    2 ++
 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/panic.c b/kernel/panic.c
index 6513aac..a1c05f0 100644
--- a/kernel/panic.c
+++ b/kernel/panic.c
@@ -297,6 +297,8 @@ static int init_oops_id(void)
 {
 	if (!oops_id)
 		get_random_bytes(&oops_id, sizeof(oops_id));
+	else
+		oops_id++;
 
 	return 0;
 }
-- 
1.6.0.3



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