[PATCH 22/30] panic: Introduce the panic post-reboot notifier list

Guilherme G. Piccoli gpiccoli at igalia.com
Tue May 17 02:08:15 AEST 2022


On 16/05/2022 11:45, Petr Mladek wrote:
> [...]
> 
> The patch looks good to me. I would just suggest two changes.
> 
> 1. I would rename the list to "panic_loop_list" instead of
>    "panic_post_reboot_list".
> 
>    It will be more clear that it includes things that are
>    needed before panic() enters the infinite loop.
> 
> 
> 2. I would move all the notifiers that enable blinking here.
> 
>    The blinking should be done only during the infinite
>    loop when there is nothing else to do. If we enable
>    earlier then it might disturb/break more important
>    functionality (dumping information, reboot).
> 

Perfect, I agree with you. I'll change both points in V2 =)


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