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From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	vgoyal@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL from kdump
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:11:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080626111158.59ceaeff@halley.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080626102803.2a1a46cd@halley.suse.de>

* Bernhard Walle [2008-06-26 10:28]:
>
> * Andrew Morton [2008-06-26 01:23]:
> > >  
> > >  config PROC_VMCORE
> > >          bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> > > -        depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
> > > +        depends on PROC_FS && CRASH_DUMP
> > >  	default y
> > >          help
> > >          Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
> > 
> > What about powerpc, sh and ia64?
> 
> At least for ia64 I wouldn't consider it as experimental. Don't know
> about SH and PPC.

On PPC it's also quite mature (just talked with our PPC maintainer),
they are also working on relocatable kernel support for kdump.



Bernhard
-- 
Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development

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From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: vgoyal@redhat.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL from kdump
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 11:11:58 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080626111158.59ceaeff@halley.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080626102803.2a1a46cd@halley.suse.de>

* Bernhard Walle [2008-06-26 10:28]:
>
> * Andrew Morton [2008-06-26 01:23]:
> > >  
> > >  config PROC_VMCORE
> > >          bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> > > -        depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
> > > +        depends on PROC_FS && CRASH_DUMP
> > >  	default y
> > >          help
> > >          Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
> > 
> > What about powerpc, sh and ia64?
> 
> At least for ia64 I wouldn't consider it as experimental. Don't know
> about SH and PPC.

On PPC it's also quite mature (just talked with our PPC maintainer),
they are also working on relocatable kernel support for kdump.



Bernhard
-- 
Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-26  9:11 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-25 21:49 [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL from kdump Bernhard Walle
2008-06-25 21:49 ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-25 21:52 ` WANG Cong
2008-06-25 21:52   ` WANG Cong
2008-06-25 22:16 ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-25 22:16   ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26  7:23   ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26  7:23     ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26  7:24     ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26  7:24       ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26  8:06     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-26  8:06       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-06-26  8:23     ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-26  8:23       ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-26  8:28       ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26  8:28         ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26  9:11         ` Bernhard Walle [this message]
2008-06-26  9:11           ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 12:35         ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26 12:35           ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26 12:38           ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 12:38             ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27  8:13           ` Paul Mundt
2008-06-27  8:13             ` Paul Mundt

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