Re: making PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME a tunable

On 2013-12-02 03:26, Colin Percival wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> It seems that PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME has been a compile-time setting forever;
> and I can't see any reason for this, but I assume there was one... at some
> point in the distant past.
>
> The attached patch makes it a loader tunable and sysctl.  My reason for wanting
> this is to make EC2 images reboot faster after a panic (not that it happens
> very often, of course) -- there's no point waiting for a key press at the
> console because the EC2 console is output-only.
>
> Any objections?
>
>
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This would be very useful for me as well, we almost always run GENERIC,
so being able to set this via loader/sysctl would allow us to make a
panic'd box wait a reasonable amount of time for me to view the console.

-- 
Allan Jude