[PATCH] kexec_load manpage

Andi Kleen andi at firstfloor.org
Thu Oct 28 08:25:40 EDT 2010


On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 09:14:17PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 11:38:02PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > On Sun, Oct 24, 2010 at 04:56:24PM +0200, Michael Kerrisk wrote:
> > > Hey Andi,
> > > 
> > > I'd like to push this page out the door, but I'm blocked doing so
> > > until I hear back from you regarding the question below (plus a new
> > > version of the page, if needed please).
> > 
> > Probably. Eric should know.
> > 
> > Frankly without an header the syscall is pretty much unusable
> > for normal programs anyways, so I gave up on this.
> 
> I'm not sure that I ever understood the impasse over the header.

It's basically: should kexec_load only be used from kexec(8)
or is it a generally available syscall.

If the former is true no header or manpage is needed.
For the later both are.

-Andi
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