Re: sleep before boot panic

[Ingo Oeser]

Hi Bernd,

On Sunday 06 January 2008, you wrote:
> Index: zd1211rw.git.beno/init/do_mounts.c
> ===================================================================
> --- zd1211rw.git.beno.orig/init/do_mounts.c	2008-01-06 18:44:23.000000000 
> +0100
> +++ zd1211rw.git.beno/init/do_mounts.c	2008-01-06 18:45:44.000000000 +0100
> @@ -330,6 +330,7 @@
>  		printk("Please append a correct \"root=\" boot option; here are the 
> available partitions:\n");
>  
>  		printk_all_partitions();
> +		msleep(60 * 1000);

ssleep(60);

>  		panic("VFS: Unable to mount root fs on %s", b);
>  	}

Better would be for this and similiar panic()s
(fatal user/admin errors on boot) to NOT print a stack trace+registers,
since it is useless and actually hides useful information.


Best Regards

Ingo Oeser
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