From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751207AbVH3IBg (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:01:36 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751214AbVH3IBg (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:01:36 -0400 Received: from newton.linux4geeks.de ([193.30.1.1]:52101 "EHLO newton.linux4geeks.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751207AbVH3IBg (ORCPT ); Tue, 30 Aug 2005 04:01:36 -0400 Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2005 10:01:21 +0200 (CEST) From: Sven Ladegast To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor In-Reply-To: <20050830030959.GC8515@g5.random> Message-ID: References: <20050830030959.GC8515@g5.random> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Tue, 30 Aug 2005, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: > During the Kernel Summit somebody raised the point that it's not clear > how much testing each rc/pre/git kernel gets before the final release. Generally this is a good idea to track the usage/testing time of different versions. > In theory we could get rid of the client entirely and make it a kernel > config option, but I've no idea if this project is useful, so I don't > want to spend too much time on it at this point. The idea isn't bad but lots of people could think that this is some kind of home-phoning or spy software. I guess lots of people would turn this feature off...and of course you can't enable it by default. But combined with an automatic oops/panic/bug-report this would be _very_ useful I think. Let's see what others say about it. Sven