Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760938AbYAHQJT (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:09:19 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1760056AbYAHQJG (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:09:06 -0500 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:51098 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759488AbYAHQJF (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jan 2008 11:09:05 -0500 Date: Tue, 8 Jan 2008 17:11:30 +0100 From: Andi Kleen To: Ingo Oeser Cc: Andi Kleen , Bernd Schubert , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: sleep before boot panic Message-ID: <20080108161130.GA31504@one.firstfloor.org> References: <200801061908.43010.bernd-schubert@gmx.de> <200801080717.03467.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200801080717.03467.ioe-lkml@rameria.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 545 Lines: 12 > I really like the "soft" panic better, where you still can operate the > kernel debugging features, but just have no user space supporting it. There is no specific reason many kernel debugging features (sysrq, scrollback) cannot work in the hard panic -- except that nobody coded it yet. -Andi -- 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/