From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Simon Horman Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec_load manpage Date: Sat, 30 Oct 2010 11:36:44 +0900 Message-ID: <20101030023644.GC12842@verge.net.au> References: <20100619132633.GA24277@basil.fritz.box> <20101024213802.GB9922@basil.fritz.box> <20101028121417.GD16206@verge.net.au> <20101028122540.GA29759@basil.fritz.box> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20101028122540.GA29759-u0/ZJuX+froe6aEkudXLsA@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-man-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-man-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, Kexec Mailing List , Michael Kerrisk , "Eric W. Biederman" , Magnus Damm List-Id: linux-man@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 02:25:40PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 09:14:17PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:38:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 04:56:24PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote: > > > > Hey Andi, > > > > > > > > I'd like to push this page out the door, but I'm blocked doing so > > > > until I hear back from you regarding the question below (plus a new > > > > version of the page, if needed please). > > > > > > Probably. Eric should know. > > > > > > Frankly without an header the syscall is pretty much unusable > > > for normal programs anyways, so I gave up on this. > > > > I'm not sure that I ever understood the impasse over the header. > > It's basically: should kexec_load only be used from kexec(8) > or is it a generally available syscall. > > If the former is true no header or manpage is needed. > For the later both are. Magnus Damm is interested in having a kexec-tools module for busybox [1]. And I suspect that would be somewhat less tedious to implement if kexec was a generally available syscall. [1] http://tree.celinuxforum.org/pipermail/celinux-dev/2010-October/002057.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html