Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756366AbYAYP04 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:26:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752778AbYAYP0u (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:26:50 -0500 Received: from twin.jikos.cz ([213.151.79.26]:40405 "EHLO twin.jikos.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752597AbYAYP0t (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:26:49 -0500 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:26:45 +0100 (CET) From: Jiri Kosina To: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce softpanic In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 887 Lines: 24 On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Bodo Eggert wrote: > 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. Hi Bodo, if you are willing to put some effort into the ability to scroll the console after panic, it might be worthwile to look making the keyboard driver work even after panic (i.e. poll the keyboard, rather than relying on interrupts). That has significantly smaller potential of breaking because the system is expected to be dead after panic (watchdogs, broken data structures in memory, etc). -- Jiri Kosina -- 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/