Messages in this thread |  | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Sticky/Key-Setable SysRq (resubmit) | Date | 9 Oct 2001 10:43:32 -0700 |
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Followup to: <20011009105251.A20842@mueller.datastacks.com> By author: Crutcher Dunnavant <crutcher@datastacks.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Attached is the patch from last week which provides the sysrq system > with the following: > > a toggleable 'sticky' flag in /proc, which makes the sysrq key work on bad > keyboards, and through bad KVMs. > > the ability to set which key in /proc, which makes the sysrq key work on > system _without_ a 'sysrq' key; like bad KVMs. > > I've gotten no tracktion on this in a week, so I'm resubmitting it. >
I think doing this through procfs might be reasonable, but a kernel command line option would be absolutely mandatory. If things are crappy you might not get to the point of fidding with /proc.
Also, I really think SysRq has nothing to do under "Kernel Hacking/Kernel Debugging". More than anything else it's a system administration feature.
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