On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 02:50:41PM -0500, Paul Gortmaker wrote: > David VomLehn wrote: >> Allows annotation of panics to include platform information. It's no big >> deal to collect information, but way helpful when you are collecting >> failure reports from a eventual base of millions of systems deployed in >> other people's homes. ... > Why hook into panic() directly like this, vs. using the panic > notifier list? If you use that, and then put the data handling > magic that you need into your own kernel module that knows how > to interface with the reporting apps that you have, you can > do the whole thing without having to alter existing code, I think. I agree--a panic notifier list is probably a better approach. David VL -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
