Re: [patch 0/6] Revert action_on_fail patches

[Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

On 29.09.2015 10:11, Dave Young wrote:
> On 08/31/15 at 10:43am, Dave Young wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> action_on_fail was introduced originally for kdump error handling.
>> Before the patches, dracut will drop into emergency shell for many
>> failure cases, but kdump does not care about some of failures as
>> long as vmcore can be saved successfully. Thus action_on_fail was
>> introduced to fall to kdump service in case early failure in dracut.
>>
>> But later with new systemd services, there are cases that kdump
>> script can never be called in case early dracut failure because of
>> systemd service dependency issues.
>>
>> Thus there was below post which create a new kdump error handler
>> systemd service:
>> https://lists.stg.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/kexec-TuqUDEhatI4ANWPb/1PvSmm0pvjS0E/A@public.gmane.org/thread/3EN63K2NDC6C545M5Z434VCHWDR3BCHD/
>>
>> Now this action_on_fail interface was useless, nobody use it and
>> it is broken with systemd sometimes. So I send this series to revert
>> them one by one.
>>
> 
> Harald, ping
> 
> Since the code is useless, IMHO it is odd to keep them and it will
> cause trouble in the future for further fixes and improvements.
> 
> What do you think?
> 
> Thanks
> Dave


Thanks, pushed!