Re: Disambiguation for panic_timeout's sysctl

["Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>]

Olaf Hering wrote:
>  On Mon, Nov 01, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> 
> 
>>On Mon, Nov 01, 2004 at 01:02:27PM +0100, Olaf Hering wrote:
>>
>>> On Sun, Oct 31, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>
>>>>The /proc/sys/kernel/panic file looked to me like it was something like
>>>>/proc/sysrq-trigger -- until I looked into the kernel sources which reveal that
>>>>it sets the variable "panic_timeout" in kernel/sched.c.
>>>
>>>This will probably break applications that expect the filename 'panic'.
>>
>>And why should applications care for the panic timeout?  Especially only
>>a few days after it's been added to the kernel?
> 
> 
> /proc/sys/kernel/panic exists since at least 2.6.5.
> Its used to override the silly default '0' on i386, but one should be
> able to boot with panic=$bignum

It's not new.  It's in 2.4.26.
And it's documented in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt,
so any patch that changes it should also change that .txt file.



-- 
~Randy
MOTD:  Always include version info.
(Again.  Sometimes I think ln -s /usr/src/linux/.config .signature)