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From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
To: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>, Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@rameria.de>,
	Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@gmx.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Subject: Re: sleep before boot panic
Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:26:10 +0100 (CET)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.0.999.0801081424230.12636@be1.lrz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080107150349.GA6523@ucw.cz>

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > Introduce config CONFIG_SOFTPANIC
> > Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a
> > soft panic, which does not stop the system completely.
> > You can still scroll the screen and read the messages.
> > 
> > Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
> 
> Looks good to me... but should this be configurable? IMO we should
> just do the right thing.

Having it configurable doesn't cost much, and the embedded folks without a 
screen certainly don't need this code.
-- 
Funny quotes:
23. If at first you don't succeed, destroy all evidence that you tried.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-08 13:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found] ` <9IJ2M-3l2-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]   ` <9IJme-3Nb-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found]     ` <9IKrY-5vk-15@gated-at.bofh.it>
2008-01-07 11:47       ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-07 15:03         ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-08 13:26           ` Bodo Eggert [this message]
2008-01-06 18:08 Bernd Schubert
2008-01-06 19:01 ` Ingo Oeser
2008-01-06 19:23   ` Bernd Schubert
2008-01-06 20:38     ` Ingo Oeser
2008-01-07 20:41 ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-08  6:17   ` Ingo Oeser
2008-01-08  6:52     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-08 16:06       ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-09 18:03         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-01-08 16:11     ` Andi Kleen
2008-01-15  9:38 ` Andrew Morton

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