RE: [Patch] IA64 Kexec/Kdump patch for 2.6.18-rc6

Zou, Nanhai
2006-09-21T00:27:10Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Luck, Tony
> Sent: 2006Äê9ÔÂ21ÈÕ 0:43
> To: Horms; Zou, Nanhai
> Cc: Linux-IA64; fastboot
> Subject: RE: [Patch] IA64 Kexec/Kdump patch for 2.6.18-rc6
>
> > Tony, Nan Hai, do you have any thoughts on merging this
> > series into ia64 test? Its really far to big to be managed
> > as a single unit. I would be much more comfortable if
> > we could track small incremental changes. Even the diff
> > between the current and previous version (as below) is quite large.
>
> I'm open to suggestions. My current inclination is to abandon the
> existing kexec/kdump patches that are currently in my test tree[1] and
> replace them with the latest set of patches. So a re-diff of all that
> is considered good against 2.6.18 would be ideal for that.
>
> Breaking the patch into some smaller pieces would also be good,
> but I don't think this needs to be taken to extremes (just define
> a few basic areas and split the patch ... I don't thing it is
> worth spending days/weeks to split this into a sequence of 37 individually
> crafted patches, with the kernel being fully functional at every
> one of the 36 intermediate points).
>
> -Tony
>
> [1] My test tree is not a guaranteed monotonic increasing sequence of
> changesets. I've already blown it away once before to clean out all
> the crufty "Auto-update from upstream" commits that my workflow generates.
> It's due for another clean-up anyway.

I put those in a big patch to help people testing the IA64 kdump.
People can grab a base kernel and the patch to test.

Thanks
Zou Nan hai