Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750994AbWAENqy (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:46:54 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751315AbWAENqx (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:46:53 -0500 Received: from sccrmhc13.comcast.net ([204.127.202.64]:48886 "EHLO sccrmhc13.comcast.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751271AbWAENqw (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:46:52 -0500 Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 08:46:51 -0500 From: Kurt Wall To: Dave Jones , Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: oops pauser. Message-ID: <20060105134651.GB4094@kurtwerks.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Jan Engelhardt , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060105045212.GA15789@redhat.com> <20060105103339.GG20809@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060105103339.GG20809@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-Operating-System: Linux 2.6.15krw X-Woot: Woot! Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 800 Lines: 20 On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 05:33:39AM -0500, Dave Jones took 0 lines to write: > > If I had any faith in the sturdyness of the floppy driver, I'd > recommend someone looked into a 'dump oops to floppy' patch, but > it too relies on a large part of the system being in a sane > enough state to write blocks out to disk. Not to mention that an increasing number of systems ship without a floppy drive. Kurt -- If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong, and circumvent these, then a fifth way will promptly develop. - 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/