From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
To: "Sachin P. Sant" <sachinp@in.ibm.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: Fix /dev/oldmem for kdump
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 16:36:04 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1215066964.17950.28.camel@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <486C726A.9080606@in.ibm.com>
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On Thu, 2008-07-03 at 12:02 +0530, Sachin P. Sant wrote:
> Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > Even though I wrote this, it was so long ago I can't really vouch for
> > it. If you've tested it and it works Sachin then we should merge it. Is
> > this fix in distros or does it not apply?
> >
> Yes, i have tested this on couple of power boxes and the patch
> works fine. [ i can copy dump using both /proc/vmcore and /dev/oldmem
> interface ]
OK great, thanks for that.
> No this fix is not part of distro ATM. But yes it applies to distros
> also. Once it is merged upstream, distros will eventually pick this up.
Crud, OK well I guess we should hurry up and merge it then :D
Paul, this has been broken for quite a while, but it would still be nice
if the fix was in 26 - sorry!
Acked-by: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
cheers
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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-26 10:55 [PATCH] powerpc: Fix /dev/oldmem for kdump Sachin P. Sant
2008-07-03 6:15 ` Michael Ellerman
2008-07-03 6:32 ` Sachin P. Sant
2008-07-03 6:36 ` Michael Ellerman [this message]
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