Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86_64 kexec: Remove experimental mark of kexec | From | Piet Delaney <> | Date | Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:20:27 -0700 |
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On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 14:15 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes: > > > On Wednesday 06 September 2006 18:55, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > >> > >> kexec has been marked experimental for a year now and all > >> of the serious problems have been worked through. So it > >> is time (if not past time) to remove the experimental mark. > >> > > > > Hmm, I personally have some doubts it is really not experimental > > (not because of the kexec code itself, but because of all the other drivers > > that still break) > > That is a reasonable viewpoint. Although by that a lot more of the kernel > deserves to be marked experimental. > > On the perverse side of the sentiment taking off experimental may increase > our number of testers and get the bugs fixed faster :)
I take it that for using kexec to boot a kdump kernel and then rebooting the primary kernel that there are a few drivers in the dumping kernel that wouldn't work but they aren't likely to be used. Ie: it's "just" a hardware initialization issue on kernels booted with kexec.
-piet
> > > But applied for now. > > Thanks. > > Eric > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Piet Delaney Phone: (408) 200-5256 Blue Lane Technologies Fax: (408) 200-5299 10450 Bubb Rd. Cupertino, Ca. 95014 Email: piet@bluelane.com [unhandled content-type:application/pgp-signature] | |