linux-kernel - Re: Say what the -[ cut here ]- lines are called

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Message-ID: <47f50df3-1c46-cb84-50d7-99684d58772c@infradead.org>
Date:   Fri, 17 Aug 2018 13:22:12 -0700
From:   Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>
To:     Dan Jacobson <jidanni@...anni.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Say what the -[ cut here ]- lines are called

On 08/16/2018 02:09 PM, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> The kernel should really say what the
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> lines are called, else users will say things like:
> 
> "I discovered that the user needs to use xrandr in _two_ steps for
> certain resolutions, else he will trigger a
> kernel:  ------------[ cut here ]------------ line."
> 
> instead of
> "...will trigger a kernel problem."
> "...will trigger a kernel fault."
> "...will trigger a kernel oops."
> or whatever it is supposed to be called.
> 
> So say e.g.,
> ------------[ cut here ]------------
> Kernel fault:
> 
> etc. there in the syslog. Thanks.
> 

My google search fu shows me:

------------[ cut here ]------------
(immediately followed by:)
kernel BUG at ...
(or)
WARNING: at
...
and ending with:
---[ end trace c228cd85b8ef2f99 ]---


Or are requesting more descriptive words immediately before "cut here", e.g.,
----------[ begin kernel trace report c228cd85b8ef2f99: cut here ]----------

See, I would prefer to see the hex "oops ID" at the beginning as well as the
end of the trace report.


-- 
~Randy