[PATCH 0/2] Remove obsolete kdump tool and add missing uninstall rule

[Bhupesh Sharma]

Hello Russell, Simon,

On Mon, Apr 23, 2018 at 10:30 AM, Bhupesh Sharma <bhsharma at redhat.com> wrote:
> This patchset contains two patches:
>
> [1/2] - Adds a missing uninstall rule to 'Makefile.in' to allow easier
>         uninstallation of executables and man pages installed via
>         'make install'
> [2/2] - Removes obsolete kdump tool as per the discussion on kexec
>         mailing list (see [1] for details), where a conclusion was
>         reached that with the availability of tools like crash/gdb the
>         analysis of the crashdump core has become rather easy, and it
>         makes the kdump tool obsolete.
>
>         Also the same naming convention (man page) causes confusion
>         when compared to similarly named distribution specific kdump
>         service/utilities, so its better to remove the same from
>         kexec-tools.
>
> I tested the patchset on my apm mustang and qualcomm arm64 boards and
> the changes seem to work fine.
>
> [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2018-April/020483.html
>
> Cc: Russell King <rmk at arm.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>
> Cc: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>
> Cc: AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi at linaro.org>

Ping. Any comments on this?

Thanks,
Bhupesh

> Bhupesh Sharma (2):
>   Makefile.in: Add uninstall rule
>   Remove obsolete kdump tool
>
>  Makefile.in         |  92 +++++++++++++--
>  kdump/Makefile      |  30 -----
>  kdump/kdump.8       |  39 -------
>  kdump/kdump.c       | 327 ----------------------------------------------------
>  kexec-tools.spec.in |   2 -
>  5 files changed, 83 insertions(+), 407 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 kdump/Makefile
>  delete mode 100644 kdump/kdump.8
>  delete mode 100644 kdump/kdump.c
>
> --
> 2.7.4
>