* Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at in.ibm.com> [2007-09-11 08:09]: > > How often does this scenario happen? Anyway, if you run into these issues > and if it helps, I don't mind additional command line syntax for crashkernel= Of course, I agree, this is a rare case. > > This series implements this change for i386, x86_64 and IA64. However, if > > the patch is accepted, I can also add all other architectures that support > > Kdump (when my grepping was correct, this is only PPC64 and SH in addition). > > The "simple" syntax is of course still supported. > > Please make the changes for ppc64 and sh too. Thanks, done now. Patchset follows. It should address all issues mentioned by you and others. Thanks, Bernhard