Linux Developers Consider On-Screen QR Codes For Kernel Panics

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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Re:Good idea

[Levex]

We are encoding the full Oops, i.e. from the "cut here" to the "end trace" marker. Classic won't ever go away, and we had already created a configuration option called CONFIG_QR_OOPS that can disable this at all. In case your distro or you had compiled it in and you don't want to have QR codes on your screen, I just added a new kernel parameter currently called 'qr_oops', which can as well disable it.