From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932336AbWDGR5P (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:57:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932451AbWDGR5P (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:57:15 -0400 Received: from e6.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.146]:7584 "EHLO e6.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932336AbWDGR5O (ORCPT ); Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:57:14 -0400 Date: Fri, 7 Apr 2006 13:59:21 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal To: linux kernel mailing list , Fastboot mailing list Cc: Morton Andrew Morton , Theodore Y Tso Subject: [PATCH] kdump: enable CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE by default Message-ID: <20060407175921.GA22556@in.ibm.com> Reply-To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org o Everybody seems to be using /proc/vmcore as a method to access the kernel crash dump. Hence probably it makes sense to enable CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE by default if CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is selected. This makes kdump configuration further easier for a user. Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal --- fs/Kconfig | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertion(+) diff -puN fs/Kconfig~kdump-enable-config-proc-vmcore-by-default fs/Kconfig --- linux-2.6.17-rc1-1M/fs/Kconfig~kdump-enable-config-proc-vmcore-by-default 2006-04-07 12:44:29.000000000 -0400 +++ linux-2.6.17-rc1-1M-root/fs/Kconfig 2006-04-07 12:44:29.000000000 -0400 @@ -799,6 +799,7 @@ config PROC_KCORE config PROC_VMCORE bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP + default y help Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. _