[patch 1/7] Extended crashkernel command line

Bernhard Walle bwalle at suse.de
Wed Sep 26 14:18:51 EDT 2007


* Oleg Verych <olecom at flower.upol.cz> [2007-09-26 20:18]:
> 
> I was thinking about errors in YaST or typos in bootloader config, that
> may appear sometimes. And kernel must tolerate this kind of userspace
> input to be more reliable. But you know better, i just am waving hands.

Of course the kernel must be able to handle them -- outputting an
error message that can be read by the user and not crashing. But I
don't expect that the kernel then reservate crash memory by guessing
of values.



Thanks,
   Bernhard



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