From: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
To: ext Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: gregkh@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysfs: remove "last sysfs file:" line from the oops messages
Date: Fri, 13 May 2011 12:23:48 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110513092347.GA10696@esdhcp04044.research.nokia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110512230102.GA19069@kroah.com>
On 12/05/11 16:01 -0700, ext Greg KH wrote:
> ---------------
> I'm going to queue this up for the .40 kernel merge window, any
> objections?
> ---------------
>
> From: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
>
> On some arches (x86, sh, arm, unicore, powerpc) the oops message would
> print out the last sysfs file accessed.
>
> This was very useful in finding a number of sysfs and driver core bugs
> in the 2.5 and early 2.6 development days, but it has been a number of
> years since this file has actually helped in debugging anything that
> couldn't also be trivially determined from the stack traceback.
>
> So it's time to delete the line. This is good as we need all the space
> we can get for oops messages at times on consoles.
>
> Cc: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Worksforme.
Acked-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@nokia.com>
Cheers,
Phil
prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-05-13 9:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-05-12 23:01 Greg KH
2011-05-13 7:28 ` Ingo Molnar
2011-05-13 9:23 ` Phil Carmody [this message]
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