Re: [PATCH v3 21/22] netoops: Add user-programmable boot_id

[Matt Mackall <mpm@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 13:30 -0800, Mike Waychison wrote:
> Add support for letting userland define a 32bit boot id.  This is useful
> for users to be able to correlate netoops reports to specific boot
> instances offline.

This sounds a lot like the pre-existing /proc/sys/kernel/random/boot_id
that's used by kerneloops.org.

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