From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:49:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:49:11 -0400 Received: from mx5.port.ru ([194.67.57.15]:61712 "EHLO smtp5.port.ru") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Wed, 12 Sep 2001 21:48:57 -0400 From: Samium Gromoff <_deepfire@mail.ru> Message-Id: <200109130611.f8D6BfV01791@vegae.deep.net> Subject: OOPS handling proposal To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 06:11:40 +0000 (UTC) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL6] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello folks! People most likely needs first oops most of the time, so it would be great to make a kernel boot option to stop after first oops, so in the situations when its neede life can be made easy. Actually afaics this is being done each time by hand, so panic() in BUG() as Rik proposed would be nice. What do you folks think? cheers, Sam