Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756510AbZANIYW (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:24:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756517AbZANIXw (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:23:52 -0500 Received: from crmm.lgl.lu ([158.64.72.228]:42449 "EHLO lll.lu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755655AbZANIXv (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 Jan 2009 03:23:51 -0500 Message-ID: <496DA0FF.2060206@knaff.lu> Date: Wed, 14 Jan 2009 09:23:27 +0100 From: Alain Knaff User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081119) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Al Viro Subject: Re: The policy on initramfs decompression failure References: <496D17F9.8080605@zytor.com> <496D20FB.5010307@knaff.lu> <20090114054022.GA11153@elte.hu> <496D8E0D.5090401@knaff.lu> <20090114074852.GB16274@elte.hu> In-Reply-To: <20090114074852.GB16274@elte.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1434 Lines: 42 Ingo Molnar wrote: > * 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 is not my argument. I never said something like that. I don't know, but I have to wonder about the strength of _your_ position if the only way to defend it is to put words into other people's mouth. > That argument is bogus. Indeed that argument is bogus. However, I'm not sure where it is coming from... > 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. This is interesting information. Where can I find documentation about this? Neither google, nor a find-grep in the kernel sources turned up anything useful... > Or you can use the VGA console and use shift-pageup ... No you can't. Try it. Or is this only a kvm artifact? > > Ingo Alain -- 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/