Al Viro wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:19:37PM +0200, Pierre Ossman wrote:
>
> First of all, please do not put patches in attachments.
>
>
My mailer tends to fsck them up if I just paste them. And it's attached
without any base64 silliness, so most people can usually read it directly.
> As for the patch, an infinite loop is *much* worse than a panic.
> When one is installing a new kernel on remote box, having it
> booted with reboot on panic and loader falling back to old
> kernel on the next boot is a bloody good idea - gives you extra
> safety. With your patch it will get the box stuck.
>
Ok. So a timeout or having the entire thing Kconfig optional?
Rgds
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