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Linux Developers Consider On-Screen QR Codes For Kernel Panics

Posted by timothy on from the take-a-picture-it'll-last-longer dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Linux kernel developers are currently evaluating the possibility of using QR codes to display kernel oops/panic messages. Right now a lot of text is dumped to the screen when a kernel oops occurs, most of which isn't easily archivable by normal Linux end-users. With QR codes as Linux oops messages, a smart-phone could capture the display and either report the error string or redirect them to an error page on Kernel.org. The idea of using QR codes within the Linux kernel is still being discussed by upstream developers."

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  1. Re:Dump kernel to serial printer by smittyoneeach · · Score: 3, Funny

    You gonna need a big bowl to catch all them corn flakes, mister.

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    Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear
  2. Re:Dump kernel to serial printer by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    No! We cannot do both! It must be either one or the other!

  3. No way! by msobkow · · Score: 3, Funny

    I am NOT buying a fucking cell phone to read a core dump.

    Just fuck right off already. Not everyone wants a digital leash.

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    I do not fail; I succeed at finding out what does not work.
  4. Re:Dump kernel to serial printer by flyingfsck · · Score: 3, Funny

    Bah. Punch cards are so much better. You young, know nothing, whipper snappers with your newfangled hoosammawhatsits...

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