Re: [Fastboot] [RFC][PATCH] Add missing notifier before crashing

Eric W. Biederman wrote:

Preben Traerup <[email protected]> writes:

Since I'm apperantly not the only one left with this choice I rather prefer a
solution
made in public, that is known to be "bad" in some (well known) situations than
each and everybody implements their own solution to the same problem.

It is certainly worth discussing.

Eric

To handle the contradiction of adding crash notifier to kexec and maintaining kexec reliability

I suggest adding a flag to Kconfig
ENABLE_CRASH_NOTIFIER

This removes any code in the critical path for people not needing crash notification.

Whatever could/should be implemented under this flag, see elsewhere in this thread

./Preben
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