Re: OOPS handling proposal

[Samium Gromoff]

"  Andreas Dilger wrote:"
> 
> On Sep 13, 2001  06:11 +0000, Samium Gromoff wrote:
> >         Hello folks!
> >     People most likely needs first oops most of the time, so
> >   it would be great to make a kernel boot option to stop after
> >   first oops, so in the situations when its neede life can be made easy.
> >     Actually afaics this is being done each time by hand, so 
> >   panic() in BUG() as Rik proposed would be nice.
> >     What do you folks think?
> 
> Absolutely NOT.  If you panic() in BUG() then you DO have to copy the oops
> by hand each time, whereas the normal situation is that you can keep
> running after an oops - to decode it, see what the symptoms are, check
> memory, etc.
   Hmm... I propose to make it a boot option.
   Else sometimes you wont be able to retrieve info at all, as like
 in the situation i have right now: oops in kupdated which i even
 cant post and it remains there all 2.4.8 and 2.4.9.

Cheers, Sam