On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 9:25 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote: > Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org> writes: >> Print a list of pages to be copied if debugging is enabled. >> Consecutive entries are merged to reduce screen clutter. > > Why is this desirable? > > I can understand this as debugging code to understand what is happening, > but why would we want to maintain this print statement long term? Because the next person who ports kexec to a new platform may need it, so he doesn't have to reimplement the wheel? It's disabled by default. It also serves as documentation for the indirection page. Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert at linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds