Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757837AbXLLClh (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:41:37 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752728AbXLLCl3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:41:29 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:48446 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752635AbXLLCl3 (ORCPT ); Tue, 11 Dec 2007 21:41:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 18:40:12 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: "Huang, Ying" Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , Andi Kleen , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Greg KH Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] x86 boot : export boot_params via sysfs Message-Id: <20071211184012.a84fff36.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1197391749.17188.8.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> References: <1197391749.17188.8.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.1 (GTK+ 2.8.17; x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 840 Lines: 21 On Tue, 11 Dec 2007 16:49:09 +0000 "Huang, Ying" wrote: > This patch export the boot parameters via sysfs. This can be used for > debugging and kexec. > > The files added are as follow: > > /sys/kernel/boot_params/data : binary file for struct boot_params > /sys/kernel/boot_params/version : boot protocol version Your patch uses kobject_create_and_register() which was added in Greg's driver tree as of 2.6.24-rc4-mm1. However for some reason kobject_create_and_register() has magically vanished from Greg's current driver tree so I cannot carry this patch, sorry. -- 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/