[PATCH] powerpc: fix os-term usage on kernel panic

Olaf Hering olaf at aepfle.de
Wed Nov 28 22:00:37 EST 2007


On Tue, Nov 27, Will Schmidt wrote:

> > -void rtas_os_term(char *str)
> > +void rtas_panic_msg(char *str)

> > -	if (panic_timeout)
> > -		return;

This change is wrong. Booting with panic=123 really means the system
has to reboot in 123 seconds after a panic.
But, maybe this panic_timeout check was moved elsewhere.

Please revert this part of commit
a2b51812a4dc5db09ab4d4638d4d8ed456e2457e before 2.6.24 is released.



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