Bodo Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Enabling this option changes a hard panic on boot errors to a > soft panic, which does not stop the system completely. > You can still scroll the screen and read the messages.
I don't think it's a good idea to keep the network running in the soft panic. A lot of people have set ups that use ping was a watchdog and with nfsroot/ip=dhcp ping does work quite well before mounting root and then the watchdog might not pick up the soft panic. Using a polled keyboard driver after panic seems to be the better option to me, but if you want softpanic you should probably at least add a suitable panic notifier to the network stack to shut it all down. -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/
