Re: [PATCH 2/2] panic, vt: do not force oops output whenpanic_timeout < 0

[Alan Cox]

> already storing the panic in RAM and are going to reboot immediately, there
> is no benefit in mode switching back to the vc in order to display the panic
> output. The log buffer will get flushed by the console_unblank() call so
> remote management consoles should see all output.

Doesn't seem too unreasonable and its probably a behaviour (although with
netconsole) that a lot of server farms would prefer too.

Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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