Re: The policy on initramfs decompression failure

[Alain Knaff]

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Alain Knaff <alain@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>> And your argument makes little sense: if there is something wrong then one 
>>> looks at the logs _anyway_.
>> Unfortunately, not everybody has the knowledge or equipment ready to set
>> up a serial console... [...]
> 
> By your argument the ton of warnings we emit in various situations are 
> wrong too and all should be panic()s.

That is not my argument. I never said something like that.

I don't know, but I have to wonder about the strength of _your_ position if
the only way to defend it is to put words into other people's mouth.

> That argument is bogus.

Indeed that argument is bogus. However, I'm not sure where it is coming from...

> Not looking at the logs makes boot problem analysis harder of course. Nor 
> is your argument actually true: you can use printk_delay or any other 
> method.

This is interesting information. Where can I find documentation about this?
Neither google, nor a find-grep in the kernel sources turned up anything
useful...

> Or you can use the VGA console and use shift-pageup ...

No you can't. Try it. Or is this only a kvm artifact?

> 
> 	Ingo

Alain
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