Re: [PATCH] dump_stack on panic

* Christoph Hellwig [off-list ref] wrote:

On Wed, Oct 31, 2007 at 01:14:04AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:

quoted

One (mostly psychological, but still serious) problem is that stack
dumps make panics always look like kernel bugs.  But there are panics
which are definitely not kernel bugs: like the popular cannot mount
root or machine checks or a couple of others.

But that one really shouldn't be a panic anyway.  The panic alone is 
psycologically bad enough for users.  I think it would be best to have 
a simple scanf loop asking for another root device..

yep. Steve's patch looks good in any case.

Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <redacted>

	Ingo