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Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 14:54:48 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: drop dependency on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC from
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On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:34:13 +0000 Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com> wrote:

> 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:
> >
> > > 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)

I see, thanks.  I don't think I've ever received a patch which did this!