[PATCH] panic.c: export panic_on_oops

[Ingo Molnar]

* Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom at netinsight.net> wrote:

> > Yes, that looks like the better direction - but 'panic' is still the 
> > wrong trigger condition i think. We generally just crash and dont 
> > panic. Often we'll display a kernel warning and then hang. Etc.
> 
> But how can we detect that? The code above will write to the MTD 
> device either if an oops happens, or if we panic for some reason. If 
> the kernel just hangs (and is reset by the watchdog, if we have one), 
> how should we know when to write the log out?

You shouldnt need to care about that in a console driver - it's up to 
higher layers.

See my reply to David Woodhouse, i think we should add support for 
buffering in kernel/printk.c and that would both fix your problems, 
would simplify the driver (significantly!) and would expose the generic 
buffering capability to other console drivers as well.

	Ingo