Re: [PATCH v2] panic: Make panic_timeout configurable

[Jason Baron <jbaron@akamai.com>]

On 11/19/2013 04:02 AM, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 09:04:36PM +0000, Jason Baron wrote:
> 
>> The panic_timeout value can be set via the command line option 'panic=x', or via
>> /proc/sys/kernel/panic, however that is not sufficient when the panic occurs
>> before we are able to set up these values. Thus, add a CONFIG_PANIC_TIMEOUT
>> so that we can set the desired value from the .config.
>>
>> The default panic_timeout value continues to be 0 - wait forever, except for
>> powerpc and mips, which have been defaulted to 180 and 5 respectively. This
>> is in keeping with the fact that these arches already set panic_timeout in
>> their arch init code. However, I found three exceptions- two in mips and one in
>> powerpc where the settings didn't match these default values. In those cases, I
>> left the arch code so it continues to override, in case the user has not changed
>> from the default. It would nice if these arches had one default value, or if we
>> could determine the correct setting at compile-time.
> 
> It's more complicated - MIPS was using the global default with five MIPS
> platforms overriding the default.
> 
> I propose to kill these overrides for sanity unless somebody comes up
> with a good argument.  Patch below.
> 

And so have the mips default be 0? IE drop the arch/mips/Kconfig bits from
the patch I posted? (Which could of course be configured to a non-zero value
by the user, if desired.)

Thanks,

-Jason