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
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