On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 04:41:10PM +0000, Michal Kalderon wrote:

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From: Leon Romanovsky <leon@kernel.org>
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On Wed, Jan 22, 2020 at 04:03:04PM +0000, Michal Kalderon wrote:

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From: linux-rdma-owner@vger.kernel.org <linux-rdma-
owner@vger.kernel.org> On Behalf Of Jakub Kicinski

On Wed, 22 Jan 2020 17:26:26 +0200, Michal Kalderon wrote:

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Add to debug dump more information on the platform it was
collected from (kernel version, epoch, pci func, path id).

Kernel version and epoch don't belong in _device_ debug dump.

This is actually very useful when customers provide us with a debug-dump

using the ethtool-d option.

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We can immediately verify the linux kernel version used.

Why can't they give you "uname -a" output?

Unfortunately, history has shown us that in many cases even though requested uname -a is not
Provided, or worse, provided but does not match the actual kernel run on.
Having this information in the dump helps us and provides us with more confidence than uname -a output.

I don't buy it, if user can't provide adequate "uname -a", you can't
trust his "ethtool -d" dump file too.

Thanks

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Thanks