Doing kexec reboot right in systemd

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Tue Mar 27 19:19:29 EDT 2012


On Tue, Mar 27, 2012 at 12:01:36PM +0200, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> On Mon, 26.03.12 21:25, Marti Raudsepp (marti at juffo.org) wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 21:07, Lennart Poettering
> > <lennart at poettering.net> wrote:
> > > Marti, sorry for changing my mind on this: would be great if you could
> > > prep a patch for this for systemd itself.
> > 
> > D'oh, I already prepared a patch for kexec, although I haven't sent it
> > out yet.
> 
> OK, I am fine with either.

FWIW, I think systemd is a better place for this change.

> > > Hmm, so since this would then belong in the shutdown path of systemd,
> > > and only be added for the kexec shutdown path I actually think it would
> > > make more sense to add this into systemd itself instead of kexec-tools,
> > > to ensure the right ordering.
> > 
> > Um, why is including in systemd necessary for guaranteeing order?
> 
> It isn't, but it's easier to keep early boot and late shutdown stuff in
> systemd.
> 
> Lennart
> 
> -- 
> Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc.
> 



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