On Tue, 2007-10-30 at 09:39 +0100, Christoph Raisch wrote: > > Michael Ellerman <[email protected]> wrote on 28.10.2007 23:32:17: > > > > > > How do you plan to support kdump? > > > > When kexec is fully supported kdump should work out of the box > as for any other ethernet card (if you load the right eth driver). > There's nothing specific to kdump you have to handle in > ethernet device drivers. > Hope I didn't miss anything here... Perhaps. When we kdump the kernel does not call the reboot notifiers, so the code Jan-Bernd just added won't get called. So the eHEA resources won't be freed. When the kdump kernel tries to load the eHEA driver what will happen? cheers -- Michael Ellerman OzLabs, IBM Australia Development Lab wwweb: http://michael.ellerman.id.au phone: +61 2 6212 1183 (tie line 70 21183) We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children. - S.M.A.R.T Person
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