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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com>
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To: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
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Subject: Re: missing sysrq
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Russell King wrote:
> 
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2001 at 04:13:02PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> > Let me guess... you're using a RedHat system?  RedHat, for some
> > idiotic reason, defaults to actively turning this off for you (and
> > they turn Stop-A off on SPARC, too.)
> 
> Umm, its off by default in 2.4.5 kernels, unless altered by a
> distributions boot scripts.
> 

That seems like a very bad idea.  What if there is a boot script bug?

	-hpa