Re: [PATCH] powerpc/fadump: Remove duplicate message.

From: Michal Suchánek
Date: Thu Oct 24 2019 - 07:16:58 EST


On Thu, Oct 24, 2019 at 04:08:08PM +0530, Hari Bathini wrote:
>
> Michal, thanks for looking into this.
>
> On 23/10/19 11:26 PM, Michal Suchanek wrote:
> > There is duplicate message about lack of support by firmware in
> > fadump_reserve_mem and setup_fadump. Due to different capitalization it
> > is clear that the one in setup_fadump is shown on boot. Remove the
> > duplicate that is not shown.
>
> Actually, the message in fadump_reserve_mem() is logged. fadump_reserve_mem()
> executes first and sets fw_dump.fadump_enabled to `0`, if fadump is not supported.
> So, the other message in setup_fadump() doesn't get logged anymore with recent
> changes. The right thing to do would be to remove similar message in setup_fadump() instead.

I need to re-check with a recent kernel build. I saw the message from
setup_fadump and not the one from fadump_reserve_mem but not sure what
the platform init code looked like in the kernel I tested with.

Thanks

Michal