[Ksummit-2012-discuss] [ATTEND] kernel core dump and "dying breath"

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Mon Jun 25 21:52:41 UTC 2012


On Mon, Jun 25, 2012 at 11:32:12PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
 > On Mon, 25 Jun 2012, Dave Jones wrote:
 > 
 > > I'm still not convinced any of this would be particularly useful. What 
 > > would be a thousand times more useful would be having working scrollback 
 > > when we panic, like we had circa 2.2
 > 
 > Admittedly my memory is not particularly good, so could please remind me 
 > -- did the scrollback work in the 2.2 era also with USB keyboards?
 > 
 > I can quite easily imagine how to make it work with PS/2. USB, when 
 > paniced, not really.

That may have been the turning point at which it stopped working, which
would explain it. Shame.

	Dave


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