On Mon, 2017-03-06 at 22:46 -0500, Martin K. Petersen wrote: > > > > > > "Mauricio" == Mauricio Faria de Oliveira <mauricfo@xxxxxxxx > > > > > > et.ibm.com> writes: > > Mauricio> On 02/12/2017 07:49 PM, Anton Blanchard wrote: > > > We see lpfc devices regularly fail during kexec. Fix this by > > > adding a > > > shutdown method which mirrors the remove method. > > Mauricio> @mkp, @jejb: may you please flag this patch for > stable? Thank > Mauricio> you. > > I don't recall a consensus being reached on this patch. What would be the opposition ? Without it kexec breaks. With it, it works ... Now we all seem to agree that kexec should be overhauled to not use shutdown but instead unbind drivers, but that's a more long term project that nobody yet had a chance to tackle. In the meantime, some systems need a functioning kexec to boot. Cheers, Ben.