Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262182AbVC2E7n (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:59:43 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262184AbVC2E7W (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:59:22 -0500 Received: from e5.ny.us.ibm.com ([32.97.182.145]:39581 "EHLO e5.ny.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261574AbVC2E7Q (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 23:59:16 -0500 Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/17][Kdump] Overview From: Vivek Goyal To: Andrew Morton Cc: lkml , fastboot , "Eric W. Biederman" In-Reply-To: <20050328174827.414a90a9.akpm@osdl.org> References: <1112016341.4001.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050328174827.414a90a9.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:29:13 +0530 Message-Id: <1112072354.3604.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.2 (2.0.2-3) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1631 Lines: 42 On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 17:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > > Following patches (as in series file) need to be dropped before applying > > the fresh ones. > > > > crashdump-documentation.patch > > crashdump-memory-preserving-reboot-using-kexec.patch > > crashdump-routines-for-copying-dump-pages.patch > > crashdump-routines-for-copying-dump-pages-fixes.patch > > crashdump-elf-format-dump-file-access.patch > > crashdump-linear-raw-format-dump-file-access.patch > > crashdump-linear-raw-format-dump-file-access-coding-style.patch > > At some point we should stop tossing out patches and replacing them in this > manner. Andrew, I shall take care of sending incremental patches only next time onwards. The reason why I did this because changes were relatively large and I thought dropping the existing series and replacing it with new series (some patches retaining the old name) might be a better idea. > Because doing so makes it hard for people to see what has changed. > > It makes it hard for people to see that changes in the above patches > haven't been simply lost. > > And the fact that you were probably working against some kernel other than > -mm gives little confidence that the kdump development team have been > testing the patches which are presently in -mm. And that is what they are > there for. > > > - 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/