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From: Preben Traerup <Preben.Trarup@ericsson.com>
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To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
CC: "Akiyama, Nobuyuki" <akiyama.nobuyuk@jp.fujitsu.com>,
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Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [RFC][PATCH] Add missing notifier before crashing
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:

>Preben Traerup <Preben.Trarup@ericsson.com> writes:
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>>Since I'm apperantly not the only one left with this choice I rather prefer a
>>solution
>>made in public, that is known to be "bad" in some (well known) situations than
>>each and everybody implements their own solution to the same problem.
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>It is certainly worth discussing.
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>Eric
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To handle the contradiction of adding crash notifier to kexec and 
maintaining kexec reliability
I suggest adding a flag to Kconfig
ENABLE_CRASH_NOTIFIER

This removes any code in the critical path for people not needing crash 
notification.

Whatever could/should be implemented under this flag, see elsewhere in 
this thread

./Preben