Re: default CONFIG_KDB_OFF behavior

[Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 08:48:51 -0500, 
Will Schmidt <willschm@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>If KDB is off, the system would continue down its panic notifier path, and
>eventually reboot or just sit on the panic.
>On your running system, see what value is reported in 'cat
>/proc/sys/kernel/panic'.    A nonzero value would be the timeout in seconds
>before the system reboots, after a panic.
>A '0' will cause the system to just sit, no reboot.    The value can be set
>with a "panic=xx" kernel parm, or cat'ing a new value into
>/proc/sys/kernel/panic.

kdb v4.3 has CONFIG_KDB_CONTINUE_CATASTROPHIC.  See the config help and
Documentation/kdb/dump.txt.