On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:50:11AM +0200, Bodo Eggert wrote:
> Dave Jones <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > This patch from Randy has proven quite useful from time to time,
> > and has been in Fedora kernels for a while for that reason.
> > I fixed up some checkpatch warnings, and rediffed it a bunch
> > of times, Randy did the heavy lifting.
> >
> > ---
> >
> > This one delays each printk() during boot by a variable time
> > (from kernel command line), while system_state == SYSTEM_BOOTING.
> > Caveat: it's not terribly SMP safe or SMP nice.
> > Any ideas for improvements (esp. in the SMP area) are appreciated.
>
> I just created a different patch, which replaces the panic with one that
> does allow scrolling and reading the messages. Maybe that would be the
> better approach ...
I've used the 'slow down the printk' patch in situations where we
haven't panic'd, but silently rebooted instantly or hung with
a black screen.
Dave
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