From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758324AbYFZMuh (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:50:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758731AbYFZMgR (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:36:17 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:55150 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757821AbYFZMgP (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:36:15 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 08:35:18 -0400 From: Vivek Goyal To: Bernhard Walle Cc: Andrew Morton , kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL from kdump Message-ID: <20080626123518.GA3878@redhat.com> References: <20080625221635.GD32344@redhat.com> <1214465001-12338-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> <20080626012337.a73c91d2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20080626102803.2a1a46cd@halley.suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20080626102803.2a1a46cd@halley.suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:28:03AM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Andrew Morton [2008-06-26 01:23]: > > > > > > config PROC_VMCORE > > > bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" > > > - depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP > > > + depends on PROC_FS && CRASH_DUMP > > > default y > > > help > > > Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. > > > > What about powerpc, sh and ia64? > > At least for ia64 I wouldn't consider it as experimental. Don't know > about SH and PPC. But should we mark it as EXPERIMENTAL on all > platforms only because some "exotic" (at least SH) platforms have kdump > not very long implemented? It has been present long enough on ia64 and ppc64. Only new entry seems to be SH. I would think of leaving it EXPERIMENTAL only on SH. Thanks Vivek