Re: [RFC] QR encoding for Oops messages

[Teodora Băluţă]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 8:03 PM, Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:59:47PM -0700, Teodora Baluta wrote:
>> This feature encodes Oops messages into a QR barcode that is scannable by
>> any device with a camera.
>>
>> If the config option for this feature is enabled, then when an Oops is
>> in progress, the printk() calls' strings are buffered. When the Oops
>> finishes, the buffer is compressed, encoded into a QR and then displayed
>> to frame buffer. The compression is done with zlib from lib/.
>>
>> Current issues:
>>  * the QR code is sometimes displayed on top of the console text,
>>    sometimes under it, thus making it unscannable
>>  * the compression rate could be better than what zlib offers
>>  * not tested for Oops messages issued from several CPUs
>>
>> As far as decoding is concerned, there are a lot of apps on mobile devices
>> that decode QR codes (just text mostly). In order to make this work, an
>> app which also decodes the QR code is needed. I will be working the next
>> couple of weeks on an Android app which scans the Oops encoding QR and
>> sends it to a server which keeps track of these Oopses that are sent to
>> it making a sort of stream of the latest Oopses. Any thoughts on what the best
>> workflow would be are more than welcomed.
>>
>> Also, if there are any suggestions on how to solve some of the issues,
>> they are more than welcomed.
>
> Definitely a great idea. Which tree is the patch against?
>
> Thanks.

I started working from Linus's source tree that's up on github. To be
more exact, version 3.14.0-rc2.

Thank you for taking interest in this!

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Teodora

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