On 03/20/2014 08:54 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > Hi hpa, > > I am wondering how to make progress on calgary issue now. We do want to > cleanup kexec-tools code and move to passing memory ranges in bootparams. > > I see two choices here. > > - Take this patch in so that new kernel code will work with modified > kexec-tools without any user intervention. (Both first and second kernel > need to be new). > > - Don't take this patch in and calgary will be broken with new > kexec-tools. And that will always require manual user intervention > from user to force passing memmap on command line. > > I kind of prefer the first option so that even if there are some calgary > machines out there, they will work automatically with new kernel and > will require manual intervention only for old kernels and new kexec-tool > cobination. > > But I can live with second option too if that's everybody agrees to and > hopefully we don't get lots of reports of breaking kdump with kexec-tools > upgrade. > The patch seems simple enough and doesn't require any new command line hacks. It has been widely reviewed and acked, so I'll pick it up. -hpa
