linux-kernel - Re: The policy on initramfs decompression failure

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Message-ID: <20090114074852.GB16274@elte.hu>
Date:	Wed, 14 Jan 2009 08:48:52 +0100
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Al Viro <viro@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: The policy on initramfs decompression failure


* Alain Knaff <alain@...ff.lu> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > And your argument makes little sense: if there is something wrong then one 
> > looks at the logs _anyway_.
> 
> Unfortunately, not everybody has the knowledge or equipment ready to set
> up a serial console... [...]

By your argument the ton of warnings we emit in various situations are 
wrong too and all should be panic()s. That argument is bogus.

Not looking at the logs makes boot problem analysis harder of course. Nor 
is your argument actually true: you can use printk_delay or any other 
method. Or you can use the VGA console and use shift-pageup ...

	Ingo
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