Subject: Re: [PATCH using git format-patch -C] kexec: add generic support for elf kernel images

From: Sven Schnelle <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 8 Jul 2019 19:51:39 +0200

Hi Christophe,

On Mon, Jul 08, 2019 at 12:40:52PM +0200, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > From: Sven Schnelle <[email-masked]>
> 
> Please describe you patch.
> 
> All the changes you are doing to the ppc64 version in order to make it
> generic should be described.
> 
> Those changes are also maybe worth splitting the patch in several parts,
> either preparing the ppc64 for generic then moving to kernel/kexec_elf.c or
> moving to kernel/kexec_elf.c without modifications, then modifying it to
> make it generic.
> 
> Note that your patch only applies on Linux 5.1, it doesn't apply on
> powerpc/next.
> 
> I think it also be worth taking the opportunity to fix the sparse warnings,
> see https://patchwork.ozlabs.org/patch/1128720/
> 
> checkpatch comments should also be fixed, see https://openpower.xyz/job/snowpatch/job/snowpatch-linux-checkpatch/8044//artifact/linux/checkpatch.log

Actually this patch shouldn't have been sent out, that was my fault. Appologies
for that. Thanks for your review, i will split up the patch and resent it.

Regards
Sven