On Tue, 5 Aug 2008 19:48:27 +1000 Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote: > elfcore header memory needs to be reserved in a crash kernel. > This means that the relevant code should be protected > by CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP rather than CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE. > > Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> > > --- > Andrew, this patch fixes bug in the (unlikely) case where > an ia64 crashdump kernel does not have CONFIG_PROC_FS set. > I think it is worth including in 2.6.27. But breakage cases are > likely to be minimal to non-existent, so I am comfortable > with post 2.6.27 too. > > This patch should be appended to the series, > "is_kdump_kernel() cleanup and related patches". hm, that means that we would need to apply a moderate-size seven patch series to fix one little bug. I think that if we want to fix this in 2.6.27 then the basic single patch would be preferable. Or we leave it until 2.6.28/
