Re: making PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME a tunable

2013-12-04 Thread Mark Felder
On Mon, Dec 2, 2013, at 2:26, 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

Re: making PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME a tunable

2013-12-02 Thread Allan Jude
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 sysct

making PANIC_REBOOT_WAIT_TIME a tunable

2013-12-02 Thread Colin Percival
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 re