From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce softpanic
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:01:28 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73ejc67xvb.fsf@bingen.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LSU.0.999.0801251551060.21522@be1.lrz> (Bodo Eggert's message of "Fri\, 25 Jan 2008 15\:54\:42 +0100 \(CET\)")
Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> writes:
> 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.
I don't think it's a good idea to keep the network running in the
soft panic. A lot of people have set ups that use ping was a watchdog
and with nfsroot/ip=dhcp ping does work quite well before
mounting root and then the watchdog might not pick up the
soft panic.
Using a polled keyboard driver after panic seems to be the better
option to me, but if you want softpanic you should probably
at least add a suitable panic notifier to the network stack
to shut it all down.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-01-25 15:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-01-25 14:54 Bodo Eggert
2008-01-25 15:01 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2008-01-25 15:22 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-25 17:31 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-02-02 14:15 ` Pavel Machek
2008-01-25 15:21 ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-01-25 17:37 ` Bodo Eggert
2008-01-28 19:07 ` [PATCH] Introduce softpanic V.2 Bodo Eggert
2008-01-25 15:26 ` [PATCH] Introduce softpanic Jiri Kosina
2008-01-25 17:16 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
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