On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 19:23 +0300, Anton Vorontsov wrote: > This patch removes need for each platform to specify default kexec and > crash kernel ops, thus effectively adds a working kexec support for most > boards. > > Platforms that can't cope with default ops will explode in some weird > way (a hang or reboot is most likely), which means that the board's > kexec support should be fixed or blacklisted via dummy _prepare callback > returning -ENOSYS.
But where is the patch to do this? The chance of kexec working on some random machine that's never been tested is pretty slim, every driver needs to be aware its hardware might be in a weird state, so enabling it by default is not a good idea IMHO. cheers -- Michael Ellerman OzLabs, IBM Australia Development Lab wwweb: http://michael.ellerman.id.au phone: +61 2 6212 1183 (tie line 70 21183) We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - S.M.A.R.T Person
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