Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757098AbYFZIZI (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:25:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752800AbYFZIYv (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:24:51 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:41571 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752550AbYFZIYt (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:24:49 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:23:37 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Bernhard Walle Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vgoyal@redhat.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL from kdump Message-Id: <20080626012337.a73c91d2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> In-Reply-To: <1214465001-12338-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> References: <20080625221635.GD32344@redhat.com> <1214465001-12338-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.4.8 (GTK+ 2.12.5; x86_64-redhat-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: 1544 Lines: 47 On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:23:21 +0200 Bernhard Walle wrote: > I would suggest to remove the "experimental" status from Kdump. > Kdump is now in the kernel since a long time and used by Enterprise > distributions. I don't think that "experimental" is true any more. > > > Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle > --- > arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 - > fs/Kconfig | 2 +- > 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig > index e0edaaa..f4f255b 100644 > --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig > +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig > @@ -1190,7 +1190,6 @@ config KEXEC > > config CRASH_DUMP > bool "kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)" > - depends on EXPERIMENTAL > depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM) > help > Generate crash dump after being started by kexec. > diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig > index cf12c40..b2252a4 100644 > --- a/fs/Kconfig > +++ b/fs/Kconfig > @@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ config PROC_KCORE > > config PROC_VMCORE > bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" > - depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP > + depends on PROC_FS && CRASH_DUMP > default y > help > Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. What about powerpc, sh and ia64? -- 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/