On 10/05/2022 11:16, Petr Mladek wrote: > [...] > Yeah, it is pretty strange behavior. > > I looked into the history. This notifier was added into the alpha code > in 2.4.0-test2pre2. In this historic code, the default panic() code > either rebooted after a timeout or ended in a infinite loop. There > was not crasdump at that times. > > The notifier allowed to change the behavior. There were 3 notifiers: > > + mips and mips64 ended with blinking in panic() > + alpha did __halt() in this srm case > > They both still do this. I guess that it is some historic behavior > that people using these architectures are used to. > > Anyway, it makes sense to do this as the last notifier after > dumping other information. > > Reviewed-by: Petr Mladek <pmladek@xxxxxxxx> > > Best Regards, > Petr Thanks a bunch for the review - added your tag for V2 =) _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
