Pierre Ossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If the device never shows up than we will hang in an infinite loop. > Previously we panic:ed instead, so this behaviour should be no > worse.
Actually that's not correct. With panic=30 and lilo -R and a working backup kernel a system can recover from this. With your endless loop it can't. Always add some kind of timeout. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
