From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751218AbVJJUq5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:46:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751219AbVJJUq5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:46:57 -0400 Received: from xproxy.gmail.com ([66.249.82.203]:5728 "EHLO xproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751218AbVJJUq5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 10 Oct 2005 16:46:57 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:from:to:subject:date:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:message-id; b=Tn5rQ9/maCJO38cEcEUxlZGL34i+u7sMZS93oqZx8OJ0AmaRYATQkir10LNBuJNCR+eLi1Yp9vNTbEd6OpcIWzIb++KaQBdJ0ZYYf0y5lmTr032f/LwCYdusiS70QIerO4pVKp3ysDUCWHs97azJxb2jxR49BG6slj6FvBuOzhQ= From: Jesper Juhl To: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" Subject: [PATCH] ask users to provide /proc/cmdline when REPORTING-BUGS Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2005 22:49:42 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.8.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510102249.43135.jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org The kernel commandline a user uses with his kernel is useful info. Time and time again I see mails on lkml asking users if they used some commandline option or another when booting the kernel. So it seems to me that it would be useful if people who took the time to read REPORTING-BUGS would by default include that info with their bug reports. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl --- REPORTING-BUGS | 3 ++- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) --- linux-2.6.14-rc3-git8-orig/REPORTING-BUGS 2005-10-03 21:54:51.000000000 +0200 +++ linux-2.6.14-rc3-git8/REPORTING-BUGS 2005-10-10 22:43:28.000000000 +0200 @@ -53,7 +53,8 @@ [8.4.] Loaded driver and hardware information (/proc/ioports, /proc/iomem) [8.5.] PCI information ('lspci -vvv' as root) [8.6.] SCSI information (from /proc/scsi/scsi) -[8.7.] Other information that might be relevant to the problem +[8.7.] Kernel commandline (from /proc/cmdline) +[8.8.] Other information that might be relevant to the problem (please look in /proc and include all information that you think to be relevant): [X.] Other notes, patches, fixes, workarounds: