Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932852AbZARMzr (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:55:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754370AbZARMzh (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:55:37 -0500 Received: from mail-in-11.arcor-online.net ([151.189.21.51]:45813 "EHLO mail-in-11.arcor-online.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753859AbZARMzg (ORCPT ); Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:55:36 -0500 From: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> Subject: Re: The policy on initramfs decompression failure To: "H. Peter Anvin" , Ingo Molnar , Alain Knaff , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Thomas Gleixner , Al Viro Reply-To: 7eggert@gmx.de Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2009 13:55:27 +0100 References: User-Agent: KNode/0.10.4 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Message-Id: X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-Information: See www.mailscanner.info for information X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-be10.7eggert.dyndns.org-MailScanner-From: 7eggert@gmx.de Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 954 Lines: 15 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > Thought about this whole thing some more, and it seems to me as follows: > what we really want, and need, is a "panic-level=X" option, where X will > naturally vary for differnet users. I suspect there are many users > today who would prefer a panic (and reboot) on a KERN_CRIT message, even > at runtime. For finer control, we need a message subsystem tag, but > that is something that would be highly desirable anyway. This will be fun if there are read errors on the CDROM. > As such, the initramfs decompression failure should be a KERN_CRIT or > KERN_ALERT message, and not a panic per se. Only if you can argue that not using the initrd WILL NEVER be bad. -- 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/