Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760212AbZANHtS (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:49:18 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752879AbZANHtG (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:49:06 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:51273 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752366AbZANHtE (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 02:49:04 -0500 Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:48:52 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Alain Knaff Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Al Viro Subject: Re: The policy on initramfs decompression failure Message-ID: <20090114074852.GB16274@elte.hu> References: <496D17F9.8080605@zytor.com> <496D20FB.5010307@knaff.lu> <20090114054022.GA11153@elte.hu> <496D8E0D.5090401@knaff.lu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <496D8E0D.5090401@knaff.lu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: -1.5 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=-1.5 required=5.9 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.2.3 -1.5 BAYES_00 BODY: Bayesian spam probability is 0 to 1% [score: 0.0000] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 880 Lines: 23 * Alain Knaff wrote: > Ingo Molnar wrote: > > And your argument makes little sense: if there is something wrong then one > > looks at the logs _anyway_. > > Unfortunately, not everybody has the knowledge or equipment ready to set > up a serial console... [...] By your argument the ton of warnings we emit in various situations are wrong too and all should be panic()s. That argument is bogus. Not looking at the logs makes boot problem analysis harder of course. Nor is your argument actually true: you can use printk_delay or any other method. Or you can use the VGA console and use shift-pageup ... Ingo -- 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/