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Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:00:12 -0700
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@google.com>
To: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] kdump: Initialize vmcoreinfo note at startup
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On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:34:00 +0200
Michael Holzheu <holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hello Andrew,
> 
> Another common code patch that we would like to have upstream is the vmcoreinfo
> note initialization at Linux startup time. We need that for our traditional
> stand-alone and hypervisor dump tools.
> 
> [1] kdump: Initialize vmcoreinfo note at startup
> [2] s390: Export vmcoreinfo note
> 
> I already have discussed this with Vivek and he has acked the common code
> patch [1].
> 
> Do you agree that Martin sends these patches together with the kdump page
> table patches (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/15/55) in the next merge
> window?

Sounds good to me, thanks.