> Considering how this situation is supposed to almost never happen and > how we're actually interested in the first line of the whole splat I > pasted, how much output comes after it, doesn't really matter. All it > matters is that the machine stops any further progress (as much as we > can do that with a panic, ofc).
It would be a "nice to have" ... because all that extra noise pushed the useful line off the top of the screen. For anyone with a serial console it’s a non-issue. But since this is a "should never happen" case it isn't worth creating a complex bunch of infrastructure. You can slap a: Reviewed-by: Tony Luck <tony.l...@intel.com> on it when you push into GIT. -Tony