Messages in this thread |  | | From | Samium Gromoff <> | Subject | Re: OOPS handling proposal | Date | Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:45:09 +0000 (UTC) |
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" Andreas Dilger wrote:" > > On Sep 13, 2001 06:11 +0000, Samium Gromoff wrote: > > Hello folks! > > People most likely needs first oops most of the time, so > > it would be great to make a kernel boot option to stop after > > first oops, so in the situations when its neede life can be made easy. > > Actually afaics this is being done each time by hand, so > > panic() in BUG() as Rik proposed would be nice. > > What do you folks think? > > Absolutely NOT. If you panic() in BUG() then you DO have to copy the oops > by hand each time, whereas the normal situation is that you can keep > running after an oops - to decode it, see what the symptoms are, check > memory, etc. Hmm... I propose to make it a boot option. Else sometimes you wont be able to retrieve info at all, as like in the situation i have right now: oops in kupdated which i even cant post and it remains there all 2.4.8 and 2.4.9.
Cheers, Sam
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