Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 09:31:33 +0900
From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@redhat.com>
Cc: jerry.hoemann@hp.com, fengguang.wu@intel.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org,
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        HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@jp.fujitsu.com>, bp@alien8.de,
        ebiederm@xmission.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, hpa@linux.intel.com,
        jingbai.ma@hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] x86, apic, kexec: Add disable_cpu_apic kernel
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On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 09:27:45AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 06:58:13PM -0600, jerry.hoemann@hp.com wrote:
> 
> [..]
> > Daisuke,
> > 
> > Are you planning on making changes to the kexec tools to automate
> > the setting of disable_cpu_apic to the capture kernel? Or do you
> > know someone who is planning this?
> 
> I think we should not make this change in kexec-tools and should leave
> it to distro scripts to append disable_cpu_apic.
> 
> Who knows in future this restriction is not there at all and kexec-tools
> will be stuck with always passing disable_cpu_apic. Getting rid of
> this parameter in distro scripts will be much easier.

Hi Vivek, Hi Daisuke,

That approach sounds reasonable to me.
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