Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] 2.5.59 morse code panics | From | Valdis.Kletnieks@vt ... | Date | Fri, 31 Jan 2003 10:32:44 -0500 |
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On Fri, 31 Jan 2003 15:05:41 GMT, Dave Jones said:
> So go see Ingo's netconsole. (Which admittedly only supports certain > net drivers). Or one of the crashdump facilities. All of which is far more > reliable and useful than sitting there with a microphone.
If I don't have a second box to run a serial cable to, I probably don't have a second box to run cat5 to, so netconsole probably doesn't do me any good.
crashdump might be usable, I'll have to look...
> There's no reason to trust morse panic output more than console output. > If something has scribbled over kernel space memory, you're screwed > anyway. It's hit or miss whether your panic-method-de-jour has been > stomped on.
The real solution is probably to get Ingo's netconsole, the morse-panic patch, the current serial-console support, and abstract it all into some infrastructure with output hooks - netconsole, serial, morse, whatever.
But we're alledgedly in a feature freeze, so that's a 2.7-ish I guess... -- Valdis Kletnieks Computer Systems Senior Engineer Virginia Tech
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