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Date: Wed, 9 Mar 2011 14:33:39 +0800
From: =?utf-8?Q?Am=C3=A9rico?= Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
To: "Stephen M. Cameron" <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
Cc: james.bottomley@hansenpartnership.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org,
        linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, smcameron@yahoo.com, thenzl@redhat.com,
        akpm@linux-foundation.org, mikem@beardog.cce.hp.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] hpsa: export resettable_on_kexec host attribute
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On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 05:10:03PM -0600, Stephen M. Cameron wrote:
>From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>
>
>This attribute, requested by Redhat, allows kexec-tools to know
>whether the controller can honor the reset_devices kernel parameter
>and actually reset the controller.  For kdump to work properly it
>is necessary that the reset_devices parameter be honored.  This
>attribute enables kexec-tools to warn the user if they attempt to
>designate a non-resettable controller as the dump device.
>
>Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@beardog.cce.hp.com>

Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>

Maybe we should docment this sysfs attribute somewhere?

Thanks.
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