On 11/05/13 09:27, John Baldwin wrote: > One of my previous employers maintained a database of panics and I added ways > to recognize "known panics" and tag them. I ended up relying a lot on stack > trace details from specific OS versions to mark a panic as an instance of a > specific bug. Also, you may have very different stack traces even on the same > build version for a single bug. In the case of my employer we had a > constrained set of kernel configs and specific build versions to work with. > It might be harder to correctly match panics in the wild what with patched > trees and random kernel configs.
Right, I'm sure there will be panics I can't match up against anything else -- but this is fine. If I get enough panic reports, I can still get useful data out even if some of them aren't immediately usable. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid _______________________________________________ freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
