[PATCH] crash: Default to CRASH_DUMP=n when support for it is unlikely
John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
glaubitz at physik.fu-berlin.de
Sun Aug 25 22:38:53 PDT 2024
Hi Michael,
On Mon, 2024-08-26 at 12:02 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > What is so special about CRASH_DUMP, that it should be enabled by
> > default?
>
> The reality is that essentially all distros enable it. Because they
> don't want to manage separate kernel / crash-kernel packages.
>
> So IMHO having it enabled by default in upstream does make sense,
> because it more closely matches what distros/users actually run.
Well, at least Debian did not enable it by default as otherwise we wouldn't
have noticed this change downstream.
Adrian
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