Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757015AbYFZI1h (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:27:37 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752547AbYFZI12 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:27:28 -0400 Received: from mx1.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:52969 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752272AbYFZI10 (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 04:27:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 10:28:03 +0200 From: Bernhard Walle To: Andrew Morton Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, vgoyal@redhat.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL from kdump Message-ID: <20080626102803.2a1a46cd@halley.suse.de> In-Reply-To: <20080626012337.a73c91d2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20080625221635.GD32344@redhat.com> <1214465001-12338-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> <20080626012337.a73c91d2.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Organization: SUSE Linux Products GmbH X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.9; x86_64-suse-linux-gnu) X-Face: ,G!z)dEOMkc[Cu+sF64,T9^5r3b>/}#HBRL%D^j@\SZbr'Itl7q@1<*dgB?A7(_leO1Tc4^ D*WfvfwKcz;,@E^y+pNP%86n8o<&g-vToCXW:r>Y$jxY,`KT?{H!07=2|Jdt?0ba^C-Tnx50vIV8It vi&Sicl:sj`k2`y)E;ECFi;i7W-?t3%\kD*));q)+%-pQd^.r'W}oBBx=+.~Gu}&F;lS7.a-m>Rv"w pe`D'OV^?HJd$-)7<2T[naDPl6+bAj'+UYd]u]B^'.LYK$2jS 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: 931 Lines: 27 * Andrew Morton [2008-06-26 01:23]: > > > > 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? At least for ia64 I wouldn't consider it as experimental. Don't know about SH and PPC. But should we mark it as EXPERIMENTAL on all platforms only because some "exotic" (at least SH) platforms have kdump not very long implemented? Bernhard -- Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development -- 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/