Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] powerpc: Make default kexec/crash_kernel ops implicit

From: Michael Ellerman <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2008 10:08:42 +1100

On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 19:23 +0300, Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> This patch removes need for each platform to specify default kexec and
> crash kernel ops, thus effectively adds a working kexec support for most
> boards.
> 
> Platforms that can't cope with default ops will explode in some weird
> way (a hang or reboot is most likely), which means that the board's
> kexec support should be fixed or blacklisted via dummy _prepare callback
> returning -ENOSYS.

But where is the patch to do this?

The chance of kexec working on some random machine that's never been
tested is pretty slim, every driver needs to be aware its hardware might
be in a weird state, so enabling it by default is not a good idea IMHO.

cheers

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