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From:   Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>
Date:   Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:34:13 +0000
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: drop dependency on ARCH_SUPPORTS_KEXEC from CRASH_DUMP
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
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        linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, eric_devolder@yahoo.com,
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On Wed, Nov 29, 2023 at 10:23=E2=80=AFPM Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 29 Nov 2023 22:04:09 +0000 Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>=
 wrote:
>
> > Fixes: 91506f7e5d21 ("arm64/kexec: refactor for kernel/Kconfig.kexec")
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6+: f8ff234: kernel/Kconfig.kexec: drop =
select of KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP
> > Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org # 6.6+
>
> I doubt if anyone knows what the two above lines mean.  What are your
> recommendations for the merging of this patch?

Hmm... I was just following
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/process/stable-kernel-rules.html#opt=
ion-1
and basically wanted to make sure that this patch gets backported
together with commit f8ff234: kernel/Kconfig.kexec: drop select of
KEXEC for CRASH_DUMP (they should go together)

> > Signed-off-by: Ignat Korchagin <ignat@cloudflare.com>
>