Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API

Eric W. Biederman
2004-07-29T15:57:15Z

"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> writes:

> > We really want to get into the new kernel ASAP and clean stuff up from
> > in there.
>
> As long as the "init" routines are run on every startup (not just kexec ones),
> they should get plenty of testing (though not from bad card state).

And I know for a fact that many init routines won't initialize a
card in a bad state currently. That is my most frequent failure in
the normal kexec case, when things are not in a

> I still think we could share code by running the shutdown routines from
> the *new* kernel before trying to init the card if they're written in a
> robust way so as to allow it ... is that insane?

As a rough feel yes that is sane. Redundant but sane. I would
like to hear what greg thinks of it though.

Eric