Re: [PATCH] 2.5.59 morse code panics

Dave Jones (davej@codemonkey.org.uk)
Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:12:24 +0000


On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 03:09:46PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:

> A lot of newer laptops do not have serial ports.

so use something sensible like a crashdump to floppy.

> While morse code may
> be a little silly the general purpose hook it needs to be done
> cleanly is considerably more useful

sure. things like lkcd,netconsole etc could all use that
infrastructure. The beyond-silly bit was the 'other machine
to decode morse' argument.

Dave

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