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

[Preben Traerup <Preben.Trarup@ericsson.com>]

Eric W. Biederman wrote:

> Preben Traerup <Preben.Trarup@ericsson.com> writes:
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> > Since I'm apperantly not the only one left with this choice I rather prefer a
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> > 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.
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> It is certainly worth discussing.
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> Eric
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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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