Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 31 Oct 2007 11:17:46 +0100 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] dump_stack on panic |
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* Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:14:04AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > One (mostly psychological, but still serious) problem is that stack > > dumps make panics always look like kernel bugs. But there are panics > > which are definitely not kernel bugs: like the popular cannot mount > > root or machine checks or a couple of others. > > But that one really shouldn't be a panic anyway. The panic alone is > psycologically bad enough for users. I think it would be best to have > a simple scanf loop asking for another root device..
yep. Steve's patch looks good in any case.
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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