Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262390AbVBCB31 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:29:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262658AbVBCB3U (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:29:20 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:7041 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262896AbVBCB17 (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 20:27:59 -0500 To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: Vivek Goyal , Andrew Morton , fastboot , lkml Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Minor Kexec bug fix (2.6.11-rc2-mm2) References: <1107352593.11609.146.camel@2fwv946.in.ibm.com> <42016B55.4000804@osdl.org> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 02 Feb 2005 18:26:03 -0700 In-Reply-To: <42016B55.4000804@osdl.org> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1004 Lines: 25 "Randy.Dunlap" writes: > Vivek Goyal wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > This patch has been generated against 2.6.11-rc2-mm2. This fixes a very > > minor bug in kexec. > > Have you run sparse on a kexec-patched kernel tree? > I have, but not lately. It needed some s/0/NULL/ in several places, > but that was before the latest big changes... I have been avoiding adding more but I have not done had a flag day and killed them all either. The one bit int bug was a stupid thinko in the new code. Totally obvious when someone tried it, to use it. I think I am about ready to provide a sysrq panic interface. At least for testing that code path it would be good. And if we actually have kernel core dumps it might be useful beyond that. Eric - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/