On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:01:21 -0400 Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > o Add kernel command line option "crashboot" > > o This option is an indication to the kernel that kernel is booting in an > unreliable environment where possibly BIOS execution has been skipped > and devices are left operational or in unknown state. > > o Kernel, especially device drivers can use this option to take special > actions like soft-resetting the device, relaxing some of the rules > to make sure kernel can boot/device driver can initiliaze in this > environment. > > o As of today this option is useful to Kdump. Kdump will pass this option > to second kernel to improve the reliability of successful kenrel boot/ > device driver initializatoin. It worries me that this will be used to work around driver problems rather than fixing them properly. - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-scsi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
