Re: magic SysRq (was Re: [Devil-linux-develop] RTL8169 bugs in 2.4.26)

[Heiko Z. <he...@zu...>]

Friedrich Lobenstock wrote:
> Heiko Zuerker wrote on 12.05.2004 03:46 MET:
> 
>> Tim Tait wrote:
>>
>>> - Where do I turn on the "magic" Alt-sysrq-T thingy? I see it being 
>>> turned on if  support in the init.d/boot script, so it must no be 
>>> comiled in cause the /proc... file does not exist.
>>
>>
>> This is for Kernel debugging, I don't really want to turn this on.
> 
> 
> No not really for kernel debugging only. Magic-SysRequest would be 
> really nice. Didn't we include the patch to achive that via the network?

Nope to yet.

> You can even turn it off or on during runtime (if it is compiled in). 
>  From /etc/init.d/boot.proc on my SuSE 8.2:
> 
> 25              # check if sysrq should be enabled
> 26              #
> 27              if test -e /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq ; then
> 28              if test "$ENABLE_SYSRQ" = yes ; then
> 29                  echo "1" > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
> 30              else
> 31                  echo "0" > /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq
> 32              fi
> 33              fi

We currently don;'t have it enabled in the Kernel config.

> BTW take a look at /usr/src/linux/Documentation/sysrq.txt

I rather keep watching the DVD

Heiko