[syslinux] Opinions about timeout

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Tue Aug 30 09:05:13 PDT 2005


I'm increasingly getting to be of the opinion that the current timeout 
behaviour of the menu system is ridiculous.  I did it this way because 
someone on this list had expressed concern that serial port glitches 
would trigger a character which then would cause the thing to sit 
indefinitely.  Well, first of all, such an automatic system would hardly 
use the menu system, and second of all, I think it's optimizing for the 
wrong thing.

Thus, I'm proposing -- and I would like comments -- of reverting the 
menu system to "you press a key - the timeout stops."  I might 
eventually introduce an optional "grand timeout" for both the CLI and 
the menu (if no selection within time X, boot the default regardless), 
but it wouldn't make it into 3.11.

Yes/no/maybe?

	-hpa




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