Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761491AbYFZSYU (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:24:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755430AbYFZSYE (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:24:04 -0400 Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:34210 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754937AbYFZSYB (ORCPT ); Thu, 26 Jun 2008 14:24:01 -0400 Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2008 20:23:58 +0200 From: Bernhard Walle To: Mikael Pettersson Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Vivek Goyal , x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, yhlu.kernel@gmail.com Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] Add /sys/firmware/memmap Message-ID: <20080626202358.13066e6b@kopernikus.site> In-Reply-To: <4863D930.2040300@kernel.org> References: <1214423826-12628-1-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> <1214423826-12628-2-git-send-email-bwalle@suse.de> <20080625224301.GE32344@redhat.com> <18531.20387.111875.576837@harpo.it.uu.se> <20080626104524.2d7ed1ab@halley.suse.de> <18531.23894.572847.322265@harpo.it.uu.se> <4863D930.2040300@kernel.org> Organization: SUSE LINUX Products GmbH X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.4.0 (GTK+ 2.12.10; i686-pc-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: 876 Lines: 25 * "H. Peter Anvin" [2008-06-26 11:00]: > > Making this depend on KEXEC would be most unfortunate. This is valuable > information for finding all kinds of issues even in the absence of KEXEC. > > I really don't see a point in making this configurable, except perhaps > under CONFIG_EMBEDDED. Now we have all opinions about how making that interface configurable. Mikael, should an option under CONFIG_EMBEDDED be acceptable for you? Then I can repost the patch, Cc Greg KH and see if the sysfs structure would be ok for him. 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/