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Subject: Re: [2.6.27] overlapping early reservations [was: early exception
 	- lockdep related?]
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Bodo Eggert wrote:
> 
> I don't think ignoring an intrd will be as serious, but having a panic (and
> a timeout) is preferable to starting the wrong configuration.
> 

Most of the time, ignoring the initrd would result in a panic anyway, 
and arguably the times it wouldn't, it's going to do something wrong.

	-hpa