Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267795AbUKAQSR (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:18:17 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S275075AbUKAQSQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:18:16 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:9860 "EHLO fire-1.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268708AbUKAQR6 (ORCPT ); Mon, 1 Nov 2004 11:17:58 -0500 Message-ID: <41865F22.4010203@osdl.org> Date: Mon, 01 Nov 2004 08:06:58 -0800 From: "Randy.Dunlap" Organization: OSDL User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (X11/20040913) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Olaf Hering CC: Christoph Hellwig , Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl References: <20041101120227.GA24626@suse.de> <20041101120411.GA26958@infradead.org> <20041101120704.GB24626@suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20041101120704.GB24626@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1301 Lines: 39 Olaf Hering wrote: > On Mon, Nov 01, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > > >>On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:02:27PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote: >> >>> On Sun, Oct 31, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >>> >>> >>>> >>>>The /proc/sys/kernel/panic file looked to me like it was something like >>>>/proc/sysrq-trigger -- until I looked into the kernel sources which reveal that >>>>it sets the variable "panic_timeout" in kernel/sched.c. >>> >>>This will probably break applications that expect the filename 'panic'. >> >>And why should applications care for the panic timeout? Especially only >>a few days after it's been added to the kernel? > > > /proc/sys/kernel/panic exists since at least 2.6.5. > Its used to override the silly default '0' on i386, but one should be > able to boot with panic=$bignum It's not new. It's in 2.4.26. And it's documented in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt, so any patch that changes it should also change that .txt file. -- ~Randy MOTD: Always include version info. (Again. Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/