Re: [PATCH] sysfs: remove "last sysfs file:" line from the oopsmessages

From: Phil Carmody
Date: Fri May 13 2011 - 05:28:56 EST


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@xxxxxxx>
>
> 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@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxx>

Worksforme.

Acked-by: Phil Carmody <ext-phil.2.carmody@xxxxxxxxx>

Cheers,
Phil
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