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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@kernel.org>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@it.uu.se>,
	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>,
	x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	kexec@lists.infradead.org, yhlu.kernel@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add /sys/firmware/memmap
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 12:18:11 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4863EB73.8070404@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080626181841.GE3878@redhat.com>

Vivek Goyal wrote:
>>>
>> Making this depend on KEXEC would be most unfortunate.  This is valuable  
>> information for finding all kinds of issues even in the absence of KEXEC.
>>
> 
> Agreed.
> 
>> I really don't see a point in making this configurable, except perhaps  
>> under CONFIG_EMBEDDED.
> 
> I think we should just not put this functionality under any CONFIG option.
> If we put it under CONFIG_EMBEDDED,  then even for using kexec, one
> shall have to turn CONFIG_EMBEDDED on which probably does not make much
> sense.
> 

Well, it should be *enabled* for !EMBEDDED.

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-06-26 19:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-06-25 19:57 x86: Add /sys/firmware/memmap Bernhard Walle
2008-06-25 19:57 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Bernhard Walle
2008-06-25 22:43   ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26  8:13     ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-06-26  8:45       ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26  9:11         ` Mikael Pettersson
2008-06-26 18:00           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-06-26 18:18             ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26 19:18               ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2008-06-26 18:23             ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 12:42       ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26  8:15     ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-25 19:57 ` [PATCH 2/2] Use FIRMWARE_MEMMAP on x86/E820 Bernhard Walle
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2008-06-26  8:14 x86: Add /sys/firmware/memmap Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26  8:14 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 20:19 x86: " Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 20:19 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Bernhard Walle
2008-06-26 20:45   ` Vivek Goyal
2008-06-26 22:24   ` Greg KH
2008-06-27 11:08     ` Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 11:12 x86: " Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 11:12 ` [PATCH 1/2] " Bernhard Walle
2008-06-27 18:51   ` Dave Hansen
2008-06-27 20:56   ` Greg KH
2008-07-01 20:30     ` Bernhard Walle
2008-07-01 20:33       ` Ingo Molnar
2008-07-12  0:36   ` Andrew Morton

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