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Message-ID: <54ACF4FA.2080309@linaro.org>
Date:	Wed, 07 Jan 2015 08:57:30 +0000
From:	Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Kiran Raparthy <kiran.kumar@...aro.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Colin Cross <ccross@...roid.com>,
	Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@...driver.com>,
	kgdb-bugreport@...ts.sourceforge.net,
	Android Kernel Team <kernel-team@...roid.com>,
	John Stultz <john.stultz@...aro.org>,
	Sumit Semwal <sumit.semwal@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC v4] debug: prevent entering debug mode on panic/exception.

On 06/01/15 21:16, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Jan 2015 15:31:31 +0000 Daniel Thompson <daniel.thompson@...aro.org> wrote:
> 
>> On 06/01/15 00:14, Andrew Morton wrote:
>>> We appear to have forgotten to document panic_timeout.  Sigh.
>>
>> I knew I'd seen it somewhere...
>>
>> Once its been sysctlised it ends up called "panic":
>>   https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
> 
> Confused.  That file doesn't mention panic_timeout.  But it is the
> place where panic_timeout can be described.

The sysctl is called "panic" (as is the closely related kernel parameter)

The name panic_timeout is used only for the C symbol presumably because
panic was already used for something else...


Daniel.

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