Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL from kdump

From: Bernhard Walle
Date: Thu Jun 26 2008 - 05:11:32 EST


* Bernhard Walle [2008-06-26 10:28]:
>
> * Andrew Morton [2008-06-26 01:23]:
> > >
> > > config PROC_VMCORE
> > > bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> > > - depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
> > > + depends on PROC_FS && CRASH_DUMP
> > > default y
> > > help
> > > Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
> >
> > What about powerpc, sh and ia64?
>
> At least for ia64 I wouldn't consider it as experimental. Don't know
> about SH and PPC.

On PPC it's also quite mature (just talked with our PPC maintainer),
they are also working on relocatable kernel support for kdump.



Bernhard
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