Re: [RFC] [PATCH 2/2] kdump: cciss driver initialization?issue fix

[Horms <horms@verge.net.au>]

In article <m11wtcvw5k.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com> you wrote:
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> writes:
> 
>> On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 07:41:00AM +0530, Maneesh Soni wrote:
>>
>> Maneesh, Keeping this code under a config option becomes a problem when we
>> will have a relocatable kernel. At some point of time we got to have
>> relocatable kernel so that people don't have to build two kernels. In fact
>> this is becoming a pain area for distros. That's the reason I thought
>> of making it a command line parameter.
> 
> Ok. Even if we do this with a command line, we need to have a clean concept.
> If the concept is ignore devices with a brittle init routine that is compre=
> hensible
> and potentially useful for other reasons than crash dumps.
> 
> If the concept is crashdump it is a poorly defined concept and all of Andre=
> ws
> objections apply.
> 
>> I remember few months back, Eric had mentioned that he has got patches for
>> relocatable kernel ready for review for i386 and x86_64. Eric, do you have
>> any plans to post the patches for review?
> 
> I have some code that I keep intending to get to.  It has probably bit
> rotted since I wrote it, but it shouldn't be too bad to clean up.
> Unfortunately the whole crashdump thing is fairly low on my priority
> list.

Hi Eric,

If you have some code to relocate the i386 and x86_64 kernels then I for
one would really like a chance to look over it.

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