Re: [PATCH v2 4/4] drm/panic: Add a qr_code panic screen

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On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 12:04:02PM +0200, Jocelyn Falempe wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/07/2024 11:12, Greg KH wrote:
> > On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 11:11:35AM +0200, Greg KH wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 10:40:10AM +0200, Jocelyn Falempe wrote:
> > > > +config DRM_PANIC_SCREEN_QR_CODE_URL
> > > > +	string "Base url of the QR code in the panic screen"
> > > > +	depends on DRM_PANIC_SCREEN_QR_CODE
> > > > +	help
> > > > +	  This option sets the base url to report the kernel panic. If it's set
> > > > +	  the qr code will contain the url and the kmsg compressed with zlib as
> > > > +	  url parameter. If it's empty, the qr code will contain the kmsg as
> > > > +	  uncompressed text only.
> > > 
> > > meta-comment, should we by default do this on a kernel.org domain so
> > > that no specific distro has to worry about hosing this type of web
> > > service?
> > 
> > Also, do you have the backend source for this to show how anyone can
> > host it themselves as well?  We can't add features to the kernel that no
> > one but closed-source implementations will use for obvious reasons.
> 
> I've made a proof of concept backend here:
> https://github.com/kdj0c/panic_report/
> 
> And the javascript to decode the kmsg trace is here (under MIT licence):
> https://github.com/kdj0c/panic_report/blob/main/docs/panic_report.js

SPDX lines are your friend, you might want to look into that for this
stuff :)

> It uses the pako js library to uncompress the zlib data, which is also under
> MIT/Zlib licence https://github.com/nodeca/pako/

Great, can you put that in the Kconfig help area for this option in your
next version?

> If kernel.org want to host a default service for that, that would be great.
> It can be linked with https://bugzilla.kernel.org to easily create a bug, or
> look for similar bugs.

Someone should at least propose it if this is going to be an option that
the kernel supports.

thanks,

greg k-h



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