Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Introduce softpanic | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:01:28 +0100 |
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Bodo Eggert <7eggert@gmx.de> writes:
> Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a > soft panic, which does not stop the system completely. > You can still scroll the screen and read the messages.
I don't think it's a good idea to keep the network running in the soft panic. A lot of people have set ups that use ping was a watchdog and with nfsroot/ip=dhcp ping does work quite well before mounting root and then the watchdog might not pick up the soft panic.
Using a polled keyboard driver after panic seems to be the better option to me, but if you want softpanic you should probably at least add a suitable panic notifier to the network stack to shut it all down.
-Andi
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