[PATCH] crash: Default to CRASH_DUMP=n when support for it is unlikely

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de
Fri Aug 23 11:16:35 PDT 2024


Hi Geert,

On Fri, 2024-08-23 at 15:13 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> IMHO CRASH_DUMP should just default to n, like most kernel options, as
> it enables non-trivial extra functionality: the kernel source tree has
> more than 100 locations that check if CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is enabled.

I guess we should then revert that part of Baoquan's original patch.

> What is so special about CRASH_DUMP, that it should be enabled by
> default?

Let's ask Baoquan who made the original change to enable CRASH_DUMP by default.

Adrian

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