Re: [PATCH v3 21/22] netoops: Add user-programmable boot_id
From: Matt Mackall <hidden>
Date: 2010-12-14 21:42:54
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On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 13:30 -0800, Mike Waychison wrote:
Add support for letting userland define a 32bit boot id. This is useful for users to be able to correlate netoops reports to specific boot instances offline.
This sounds a lot like the pre-existing /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id that's used by kerneloops.org. -- Mathematics is the supreme nostalgia of our time.