Re: oops pauser.

From: Dave Jones
Date: Thu Jan 05 2006 - 21:06:10 EST


On Thu, Jan 05, 2006 at 08:58:53AM -0500, Avishay Traeger wrote:
> Some comments:
> 1. I think this is a good idea, since serial consoles can also change
> timings. I have seen several race conditions where the problem goes
> away once I add a serial console.
> 2. Should this be a separate debugging option?

maybe

> 3. Shouldn't you have KERN____ in your printk statements?

doesn't make a great deal of difference in this context.

> 4. Wouldn't printing out the message every second make the oops scroll
> off the screen, defeating the purpose of the patch?

no. that's why it uses \r instead of \n.

Dave

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