[PATCH 2/5] kexec: Export kexec_in_progress

[Eric W. Biederman]

Brian King <brking at linux.vnet.ibm.com> writes:

> On 08/04/2014 09:21 AM, Brian King wrote:
>> On 07/28/2014 03:28 PM, Brian King wrote:
>>>
>>> Export kexec_in_progress for use by device drivers and other modules
>>> to optimize kexec boot.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Brian King <brking at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>>
>>>  kernel/kexec.c |    2 ++
>>>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>>
>>> diff -puN kernel/kexec.c~kexec_export_in_prog kernel/kexec.c
>>> --- linux/kernel/kexec.c~kexec_export_in_prog	2014-07-23 17:05:24.851887935 -0500
>>> +++ linux-bjking1/kernel/kexec.c	2014-07-23 17:05:24.856887970 -0500
>>> @@ -1716,3 +1716,5 @@ int kernel_kexec(void)
>>>  	mutex_unlock(&kexec_mutex);
>>>  	return error;
>>>  }
>>> +
>>> +EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL(kexec_in_progress);
>> 
>> Eric,
>> 
>> Can I get an ack on this so we can take this entire series through the SCSI tree?
>
> Eric,
>
> Any issues with this patch?

No huge issues except that patch description is largely uniformitive and
actually wrong.  kexec_in_progress is never set at boot/kernel startup.

Eric