Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 14 Jan 2009 06:40:22 +0100 | | From | Ingo Molnar <> | | Subject | Re: The policy on initramfs decompression failure | |
* Alain Knaff <alain@knaff.lu> wrote:
> There is also the additional issue that continuing to boot might hide
> the original error message. [...]
I have hit this pointless panic during testing, that's the motivation for
this whole question. The initrd was unimportant in that bootup - but that
is generally true of bzImage bootups.
And your argument makes little sense: if there is something wrong then one
looks at the logs _anyway_. Are you suggesting that all warnings that
signal some potential badness should result in a panic? That is
nonsensical.
What you seem to be arguing for is to introduce a kernel option that says
"panic on warnings" - so that folks cannot miss warnings. _That_ would be
a fair argument.
Panics are rarely good, unless the user asks for it, period. We've been
flipping over BUG_ON()s to WARN_ON() everywhere where it matters in
practice.
Ingo
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