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Date:   Sat, 25 Nov 2023 10:29:41 +0800
From:   Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc:     Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] drivers/base/cpu: crash data showing should depends
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On 11/24/23 at 08:44am, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Nov 2023 19:15:43 +0800 Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> > > > CONFIG_KEXEC is used to enable kexec_load interface, the
> > > > crash_notes/crash_notes_size/crash_hotplug showing depends on
> > > > CONFIG_KEXEC is incorrect. It should depend on KEXEC_CORE instead.
> > > >
> > > > Fix it now.
> > > 
> > > Can we add Fixes/CC stable, so it gets eventually backported into 6.6?
> > 
> > Makes sense. Will add it in v2 since I need respin to add the missing
> > stuff in patch 1. Thanks.
> 
> Please avoid mixing cc:stable patches and this-merge-window fixes in
> the same series as next-merge-window material.  Because I'll just have
> to separate them out anyway, causing what-I-merged to unnecessarily
> differ from what-you-sent.

Got it, will send them separately because the issue that this patch is fixing
has been there for very long time. Thanks for noticing.