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by the_mitsuhiko 4252 days ago
Yep. It's because when you kernel panic most people do not feel like typing stuff off a screen. If you have a QR code on your monitor however you can easily scan it and it contains all the info about what is wrong.

That's a pretty good feature if you ask me.
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uselessdguy 4252 days ago
That's a Linux kernel feature, not a systemd feature. It's unrelated: http://www.linux.com/news/featured-blogs/200-libby-clark/773...

systemd has libqrencode integration, in order to, if I recall correctly, display a QR code when you generate FSS keys from journalctl.

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ape4 4252 days ago
That is a useful feature! The way it was written it sounded like QR codes were going into the logs.
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