On Sun, Apr 19, 2009 at 09:23:36AM -0700, David VomLehn wrote: > Andi Kleen wrote: > >VomLehn <dvomlehn@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >>History > >>v2 Wait for the preferred console rather than any console. Make the > >> delay interval a tunable. > > > >CONFIG tunables are usually a bad idea. What should a binary distribution > >kernel set? Better make it a boot option with a reasonable default. > > Your point about boot options is well taken; I released a more recent > version of this patch with boot options last Friday and would appreciate > your comments. Ah missed that sorry. > > >Also a setting to panic in this case might be useful, normally a system > >without console is not very useful and needs to be rebooted anyways. > > Umm, those of us in the embedded space have the, perhaps misguided, > notion that our systems are quite useful without consoles... That seems more like a special case that shouldn't be default? -Andi -- ak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- Speaking for myself only. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-embedded" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
