Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Mar 2014 22:51:52 +0200 | Subject | Re: [RFC] QR encoding for Oops messages | From | Teodora Băluţă <> |
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On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:50 PM, Teodora Băluţă <teobaluta@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 10:28 PM, Levente Kurusa <levex@linux.com> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> 2014-03-19 21:18 GMT+01:00 Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>: >>> On Mon, Mar 17, 2014 at 02:59:47PM -0700, Teodora Baluta wrote: >>> > This feature encodes Oops messages into a QR barcode that is scannable by >>> > any device with a camera. >>> >>> ... >>> >>> > include/linux/print_oops.h | 11 + >>> > include/linux/qrencode.h | 546 +++++++++++++ >>> > kernel/Makefile | 1 + >>> > kernel/panic.c | 5 + >>> > kernel/print_oops.c | 173 +++++ >>> > kernel/printk/printk.c | 9 +- >>> > lib/Kconfig | 5 + >>> > lib/Kconfig.debug | 11 + >>> > lib/Makefile | 3 + >>> > lib/qr/Makefile | 6 + >>> > lib/qr/bitstream.c | 233 ++++++ >>> > lib/qr/bitstream.h | 37 + >>> > lib/qr/mask.c | 320 ++++++++ >>> > lib/qr/mask.h | 39 + >>> > lib/qr/mmask.c | 175 +++++ >>> > lib/qr/mmask.h | 36 + >>> > lib/qr/mqrspec.c | 259 +++++++ >>> > lib/qr/mqrspec.h | 155 ++++ >>> > lib/qr/qrencode.c | 871 +++++++++++++++++++++ >>> > lib/qr/qrencode.h | 546 +++++++++++++ >>> > lib/qr/qrinput.c | 1834 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ >>> > lib/qr/qrinput.h | 129 ++++ >>> > lib/qr/qrspec.c | 543 +++++++++++++ >>> > lib/qr/qrspec.h | 178 +++++ >>> > lib/qr/rscode.c | 325 ++++++++ >>> > lib/qr/rscode.h | 38 + >>> > lib/qr/split.c | 331 ++++++++ >>> > lib/qr/split.h | 44 ++ >>> > 28 files changed, 6860 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) >> >> This idea is certainly great. >> >> However, there are quite a few problems with the code in terms of code style and >> other terms as well. I am not sure how could we help you make this code >> appliable, but it would be great if you put up a branch somewhere. This way >> I could send you a few commits that do some fixups. > > Wow, that'd be great! I have set up my clone of the kernel source up > on gitlab [0] and github [1]. I will update the remote branch asap (I > made some coding style fixups that aren't present on github/gitlab > right now, only in a remote branch). Is this ok?
Of course, I meant local branch. Sorry for spamming.
> >> >>> >>> That's a ton of code we're adding into one of the most fragile parts of the kernel. >> >> Indeed, this should get split up. >> >>> >>> A lot of what libqrencode does would seem to be superfluous to the requirements >>> here, as we don't output kernel oopses in kanji for eg, and won't care about >>> multiple versions of the qr spec. >>> >>> How much of this could we drop ? >> >> A lot, most likely. > > Indeed. > >> >> Also, I wonder if we could do the same for panic()? >> I hate it when I receive a panic and I have no idea what's the cause >> since my display is filled up with the stack trace. > > Most likely panic is harder to do for reasons discussed in this thread here [2]. > > > [0] https://gitlab.com/teobaluta/opw > [1] https://github.com/teobaluta/qr-linux-kernel > [2] https://lwn.net/Articles/503677/ > > Thanks, > Teodora >> >> -- >> Regards, >> Levente Kurusa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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