Re: [PATCH] x86_64 stack trace cleanup

[Andrew Morton]

Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Friday 24 February 2006 13:50, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > I can offer you a deal though: if you fix VGA scrollback to have
> > >  at least 1000 lines by default we can change the oops formatting too.
> > 
> > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.16-rc4/2.6.16-rc4-mm2/broken-out/vgacon-add-support-for-soft-scrollback.patch
> 
> Once that is in and works we can consider changing the oopses.
>

I don't think we should change the oops format.

Apart from no longer printing a hex-base+decimal-offset, which is braindead.

> > Problem is, scrollback doesn't work after panic().  I don't know why..
> 
> Someone claimed it was related to the panic keyboard blinking.
>

Strange.  It looks pretty harmless.
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