Re: FW/BIOS Bug category for oops.kernel.org

[Borislav Petkov]

On Mon, Nov 03, 2014 at 10:26:10PM +0100, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> Hi oops.kernel.org folks,
> 
> I'm wanting to collect information on FW/BIOS bugs, and I figured that
> we could use the oops.kernel.org infrastructure to do this.
> 
> Now, I'd prefer to not use the regular BUG/WARN because it might confuse
> users and the stacktrace is entirely pointless -- we know were/why we
> generate the msgs.
> 
> Is everything between:
> 
>         pr_warn("------------[ cut here ]------------\n");
> and:
>         pr_warn("---[ end trace %016llx ]---\n", (unsigned long long)oops_id);
> 
> sucked in automagically, or do we need more magic?

Btw, we have FW_{BUG,WARN,INFO} macros for exactly firmware issues.

-- 
Regards/Gruss,
    Boris.

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