> > Perhaps one of you geniuses who all hate it can find a better way to
> > solve the "video output dead after kexec; but need visual feedback to the user
> > while crash dumping" problem. I'm waiting for your patches.
> >
>
> I don't don't like it ;) Unfortunately too many people end up enabling
Yes that's pretty weird. I admit I hadn't expected
that problem. blink is equivalent to "annoy me" and it
is a mystery why so many people should willingly ask their computer to
annoy them.
Or perhaps they update their configs with yes | make oldconfig?
User psychology can be mysterious.
I wonder if the kernel offered a CONFIG_FORMAT_FILESYSTEMS_AT_BOOT
how many people would enable that @) Might be an interesting experiment
for next April.
> it and having issues with their keyboards.
Forcing a suitable slow rate should fix that shouldn't it? We need
that anyways to stop the "setleds DOS".
> Can we have it depend on
> DEBUG_KERNEL?
Yes that would be probably a good idea; even though it is technically
not correct: the debug kernel doesn't try to debug itself. But anyways,
it's probably the best place.
> And probably KEXEC as well?
The kcrash kernel doesn't necessarily need to have kexec enabled by
itself.
> Another option would be for it not use panic_blink. Do your kexec
> kernels have atkbd support enabled? You could write an new "blink"
> input handler that would latch to keyboards supporting leds and blink
> by sending EV_LED events.
Yes that would be probably a better implementation. Also hook something
for USB keyboards. iirc Bernhard Walle (cc'ed) was looking at that.
-Andi
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