Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:49:45 +0800 | From | Yaowei Bai <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: add 'crashkernel=auto' entry into kernel-parameters.txt |
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On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:26:23AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 23:04:29 +0800 > Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@163.com> wrote: > > > There is no 'crashkernel=auto' entry in kernel-parameters.txt, borrow it > > from kexec-kdump-howto.txt file in the kexec-tools-2.0.0 package. > > OK, so I did some digging here. As far as I can tell, there is no > crashkernel=auto entry because the auto-reserve patch has never been > merged into the mainline kernel. RHEL kernels appear to have it, but > mainline doesn't.
Yes, it's indeed in the RHEL/CentOS kernels. This's my mistake.
> > Thus, merging this patch would make the documentation incorrect, > something I'd rather not do. I appreciate efforts to improve the > kernel's documentation, but it is important to be sure that your proposed > changes make the docs closer to reality, rather than further away.
Very appreciate your wonderful work.
> > Thanks, > > jon
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