Re: subsystem crashes reboot system?

[Andrew Morton]

Russell Miller <[e-mail]> wrote:
>
> Any chance of making the dying thread sleep just long enough for syslogd to 
> write it out to the file, then panic?  Since it's an assertion, we have a 
> little more leeway then in a page fault OOPS, for example.
> 

Yes, that would probably be OK.  It won't make anything worse than it
already is.

hm, the kernel used to panic if schedule() was called from in_interrupt(),
but that seems to have been taken out.   It's easy enough (and free) to
put back in.