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From: Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation•org>
To: Rahul Lakkireddy <rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio•com>
Cc: netdev@vger•kernel.org, kexec@lists•infradead.org,
	linux-fsdevel@vger•kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger•kernel.org,
	davem@davemloft•net, viro@zeniv•linux.org.uk,
	ebiederm@xmission•com, stephen@networkplumber•org,
	akpm@linux-foundation•org, torvalds@linux-foundation•org,
	ganeshgr@chelsio•com, nirranjan@chelsio•com,
	indranil@chelsio•com
Subject: Re: [PATCH net-next v4 1/3] vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel
Date: Thu, 19 Apr 2018 10:24:56 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180419082456.GA8617@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e69b49f1406d2dcd9cd68e4300939e96cd745559.1523950324.git.rahul.lakkireddy@chelsio.com>

On Tue, Apr 17, 2018 at 01:14:17PM +0530, Rahul Lakkireddy wrote:
> +config PROC_VMCORE_DEVICE_DUMP
> +	bool "Device Hardware/Firmware Log Collection"
> +	depends on PROC_VMCORE
> +	default y

Only things that require the machine to keep working should be 'default
y', please remove this, it's an option.

> +	help
> +	  Device drivers can collect the device specific snapshot of
> +	  their hardware or firmware before they are initialized in
> +	  crash recovery kernel. If you say Y here, the device dumps
> +	  will be added as ELF notes to /proc/vmcore

Which exact "device drivers" are you referring to here?

thanks,

greg k-h

  reply	other threads:[~2018-04-19  8:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-04-17  7:44 [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] kernel: add support to collect hardware logs in crash recovery kernel Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-17  7:44 ` [PATCH net-next v4 1/3] vmcore: add API to collect hardware dump in second kernel Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-19  8:24   ` Greg KH [this message]
2018-04-19 14:56     ` Rahul Lakkireddy
     [not found] ` <cover.1523950321.git.rahul.lakkireddy-ut6Up61K2wZBDgjK7y7TUQ@public.gmane.org>
2018-04-17  7:44   ` [PATCH net-next v4 2/3] vmcore: append device dumps to vmcore as elf notes Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-17  7:44 ` [PATCH net-next v4 3/3] cxgb4: collect hardware dump in second kernel Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-18  6:15 ` [PATCH net-next v4 0/3] kernel: add support to collect hardware logs in crash recovery kernel Dave Young
     [not found]   ` <20180418061546.GA4551-0VdLhd/A9Pl+NNSt+8eSiB/sF2h8X+2i0E9HWUfgJXw@public.gmane.org>
2018-04-18 12:31     ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-18 14:28       ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-04-18 15:07         ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-19  1:40       ` Dave Young
2018-04-19 14:27         ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-19 14:53           ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-04-20 13:06             ` Rahul Lakkireddy
2018-04-20 13:36               ` Eric W. Biederman
2018-04-20 14:51                 ` Rahul Lakkireddy

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