Re: a small doubt
Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Sat, 09 Oct 1999 00:40:25 +1000
On Fri, 8 Oct 1999 09:18:36 -0500 ,
Bret Indrelee <bindrelee@sbs-cp.com> wrote:
>Oliver Xymoron [mailto:oxymoron@waste.org] wrote:
>> Why don't we simply use an OOPS() macro that causes an oops in an
>> arch-specific way? And throw this in a generic place:
>
>What is wrong with just using the existing panic() from kernel.h?
>
>If there is information that panic() doesn't save which you would get with
>an OOPS message, then that is a problem with panic.
panic() is just a general message formatter, like printk() but with a
few more side effects ;). Causing an oops gets the registers and, more
to the point, gets them at the point of failure. Registers after you
have called another routine are much less useful.
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