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From: Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
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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?
> >  =20
> 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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