[PATCH] Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL from kdump

Bernhard Walle bwalle at suse.de
Thu Jun 26 05:11:58 EDT 2008


* Bernhard Walle [2008-06-26 10:28]:
>
> * Andrew Morton [2008-06-26 01:23]:
> > >  
> > >  config PROC_VMCORE
> > >          bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> > > -        depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
> > > +        depends on PROC_FS && CRASH_DUMP
> > >  	default y
> > >          help
> > >          Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.
> > 
> > What about powerpc, sh and ia64?
> 
> At least for ia64 I wouldn't consider it as experimental. Don't know
> about SH and PPC.

On PPC it's also quite mature (just talked with our PPC maintainer),
they are also working on relocatable kernel support for kdump.



Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development



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