From: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>
To: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Links -- disable when unused
Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:21:19 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <494C023F.6070207@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0812191337160.3745@localhost.localdomain>
>> maybe could have one switch in /proc so could not disable that for
>> some kexec path...
>
> I fail to comprehend the benefits of kexec,
> and the requirements that kexec puts on the kernel, other than:
>
> # CONFIG_KEXEC is not set
>
for me: it is a tools that i could use to make sure root-cause is in FW, and BIOS guys will not kick back the ball to os team.
after modifying table or hw reg in first kernel, and kexec even stock kernel, everything will work well.
YH
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-19 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-19 8:22 _DIS ACPI PCI Interrupt Links Len Brown
2008-12-19 8:22 ` [PATCH 1/2] ACPI: update pci_link debug messages Len Brown
2008-12-19 8:22 ` [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Links -- disable when unused Len Brown
2008-12-19 9:10 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-12-19 9:33 ` Len Brown
2008-12-19 11:57 ` Yinghai Lu
2008-12-19 18:39 ` Len Brown
2008-12-19 20:21 ` Yinghai Lu [this message]
2009-01-09 6:55 ` why kexec (was Re: [PATCH 2/2] ACPI: PCI Interrupt Links -- disable when unused) Len Brown
2009-01-09 7:24 ` Yinghai Lu
2009-01-09 10:30 ` Len Brown
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