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To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
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Subject: Re: kexec for 2.5.44 (Who do I send this to?)
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 19 Oct 2002 15:36:14 -0600
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Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com> writes:

> On 19 Oct 2002, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> > 
> > The kexec code has gone through a fairly decent review, and all known bugs
> > are resolved.  There are still BIOS's that don't work after you have
> > run a kernel but that is an entirely different problem.  
> > 
> > My real question: With Linus off on vacation my real question is who
> > should I send this to?
> 
> I believe Linus explicitly said he wasn't going to tell anyone, which
> means we're back to the days of "through it on the list over and over
> until someone admits to seeing it." Or send it to everyone who might be
> willing to push it to Linus when he gets back.

I'm hoping one of the guys who work regularly with Linus will volunteer...  

> By not accepting stuff at this point I would guess that the defacto freeze
> is here. Hope I'm wrong, there is some good stuff which would be ready by
> Oct 31.

The only strategy that I know works at this point is being tenacious.  So I'm
not planning to throw in the towel just yet.

Eric


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