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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390 update (3/9): listing & kerntypes.
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On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:20:07AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> AFAIK, s390 is the only architecture that has hardware support for taking
> system dumps without the lkcd patch. Since the lkcd patch does not
> appear to be going into mainline linux and most s390 users want the
> kerntypes anyway (every distributor includes them), arch/s390/boot
> seems to be the right place to put them.

No.  The Kerntypes patch makes lots of sense even without lkcd.  Once
again I'm all in favour of adding this patch, but adding such a generic
facility in architecture depend code is a bad idea.

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