Re: [PATCH] kexec: drop dependency on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC from CRASH_DUMP

Ignat Korchagin
2023-11-29T22:34:31Z

On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:23 PM Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:04:09 +0000 Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com> wrote:
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> > Fixes: 91506f7e5d21 ("arm64/kexec: refactor for kernel/Kconfig.kexec")
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6+: f8ff234: kernel/Kconfig.kexec: drop select of KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6+
>
> I doubt if anyone knows what the two above lines mean. What are your
> recommendations for the merging of this patch?

Hmm... I was just following
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html#option-1
and basically wanted to make sure that this patch gets backported
together with commit f8ff234: kernel/Kconfig.kexec: drop select of
KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP (they should go together)

> > Signed-off-by: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>
>