From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@lists.osdl.org,
linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com,
mike.miller@hp.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] introduce crashboot kernel command line parameter
Date: Fri, 23 Jun 2006 23:55:14 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060623235514.48ea9578.akpm@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060623210121.GA18384@in.ibm.com>
On Fri, 23 Jun 2006 17:01:21 -0400
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> 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.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-24 6:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-23 21:01 [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] introduce crashboot kernel command line parameter Vivek Goyal
2006-06-23 21:04 ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] kdump: cciss driver initialization issue fix Vivek Goyal
2006-06-24 6:55 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-24 11:19 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-24 11:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-24 12:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-24 17:13 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26 2:11 ` [Fastboot] " Maneesh Soni
2006-06-26 13:35 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 14:17 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26 15:32 ` [Fastboot] " Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 16:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26 16:13 ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2006-06-26 16:35 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 16:38 ` [Fastboot] " Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26 16:51 ` Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2006-06-26 17:04 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 17:24 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-26 17:22 ` [Fastboot] " Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 17:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26 18:18 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 18:51 ` [Fastboot] " Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2006-06-26 19:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26 19:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 21:24 ` [Fastboot] " Miller, Mike (OS Dev)
2006-06-26 19:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 17:16 ` Vivek Goyal
2006-06-26 17:31 ` Andrew Morton
2006-06-26 17:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-26 17:56 ` James Bottomley
2006-06-26 18:23 ` Eric W. Biederman
2006-06-27 2:42 ` [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] kdump: cciss driver initialization?issue fix Horms
2006-06-26 9:09 ` Horms
2006-06-26 13:45 ` [Fastboot] " Vivek Goyal
2006-06-27 2:30 ` Horms
[not found] ` <E1FttEj-0002JH-00@calista.eckenfels.net>
2006-06-23 22:39 ` [RFC] [PATCH 1/2] introduce crashboot kernel command line parameter Vivek Goyal
2006-06-24 6:55 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
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