Re: [PATCH] panic: keep blinking in spite of long spin timer mode

[Andi Kleen]

> Therefore, I changed to call panic_blink_enter() between every mdelay.
> The default time calls to mdelay is 1ms.  If the kernel parameter
> panic_longspin is set to true, it will be switched to 240ms and the
> maximum speed of blinking will be automatically limited slower due to
> the granularity of the blinking time.

Thanks for this explanation, makes all sense. 
But should do these changes by default then, not with a parameter.

Changing the frequency is ok, the only requirement is that it is
visible and different from the frequency kdb uses.

-Andi
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