Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 19 Nov 2013 17:38:12 +0100 | From | Ralf Baechle <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] panic: Make panic_timeout configurable |
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On Tue, Nov 19, 2013 at 11:51:27PM +0900, Shinya Kuribayashi wrote:
> IIRC we had set it to 180 seconds for some historical reasons, but > I'm afraid nobody can recall the reason why it's set so in 2013... > Anyway I was thinking it too long and reduced to a few seconds locally > when debugging, so there shouldn't be a problem with this change.
I think one motivation was to have boards reboot automatically avoiding the need to walk over to the board just powercycle or reset it - let alone reseting by emailing/phoning an admin!
But that's a development-specific motivation and it shouldn't result in a hardcoded reboot timeout for everybody.
Ralf
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