linux-kernel - Re: sleep before boot panic

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Date:	Tue, 8 Jan 2008 14:26:10 +0100 (CET)
From:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
cc:	Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>, Ingo Oeser <ioe-lkml@...eria.de>,
	Bernd Schubert <bernd-schubert@....de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Subject: Re: sleep before boot panic

On Mon, 7 Jan 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:

> > Introduce config CONFIG_SOFTPANIC
> > 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.
> > 
> > Signed-Off-By: Bodo Eggert <7eggert@....de>
> 
> Looks good to me... but should this be configurable? IMO we should
> just do the right thing.

Having it configurable doesn't cost much, and the embedded folks without a 
screen certainly don't need this code.
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