Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:30:41 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] [WATCHDOG] [hpwdt] Set the mapped BIOS address space as executable |
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On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:05:06 +0000 "Mingarelli, Thomas" <Thomas.Mingarelli@hp.com> wrote:
> > -----Original Message----- > > From: Bernhard Walle [mailto:bwalle@suse.de] > > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:32 PM > > To: Andrew Morton > > Cc: Mingarelli, Thomas; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; wim@iguana.be; stable@kernel.org > > Subject: Re: [PATCH] [WATCHDOG] [hpwdt] Set the mapped BIOS address space as executable > > > > * Andrew Morton [2008-11-18 14:30]: > > > > > > This is also needed in 2.6.27.x, yes? > > > > Right. But I was waiting for feedback from the author since I'm really > > not familiar with low level memory management and that driver. :( > > > > We have also verified that returning NOTIFY_OK from the hpwdt_pretimeout routine makes the KDUMP feature work correctly. > > Bernhard pointed that out a week or so ago and we have since verified it. >
(top-posting repaired. Please don't top-post!)
I haven't seen any patch which alters hpwdt_pretimeout() and there is no such patch in linux-next. Perhaps it got lost?
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