On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 08:15:13AM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:14:04AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > One (mostly psychological, but still serious) problem is that stack > > dumps make panics always look like kernel bugs. But there are panics > > which are definitely not kernel bugs: like the popular cannot mount > > root or machine checks or a couple of others. > > But that one really shouldn't be a panic anyway. The panic alone > is psycologically bad enough for users. I think it would be best to > have a simple scanf loop asking for another root device..
Then you couldn't recover with panic=30 from it. Besides even if you fix that one there are others, like machine checks where it is impossible to recover. -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/
