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Subject: Re: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] QR encoded oops for the kernel
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On 05/12/2014 09:24 AM, Jason Cooper wrote:
> 
> Well, the QR code can only hold one oops anyway.  Printing the code for
> the first should be pretty simple to implement.
> 

A QR code can hold a certain amount of data, which may or may not be
more than one Oops and/or kernel log messages before it.  Compressing
the data would allow for more information, although it involves more
code running on a dodgy kernel.

	-hpa