linux-kernel - Re: [patch 0/2] kdump: Initialize vmcoreinfo note at startup

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Date:	Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:00:12 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...gle.com>
To:	Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	vgoyal@...hat.com, ebiederm@...ssion.com,
	mahesh@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/2] kdump: Initialize vmcoreinfo note at startup

On Tue, 20 Sep 2011 16:34:00 +0200
Michael Holzheu <holzheu@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:

> Hello Andrew,
> 
> Another common code patch that we would like to have upstream is the vmcoreinfo
> note initialization at Linux startup time. We need that for our traditional
> stand-alone and hypervisor dump tools.
> 
> [1] kdump: Initialize vmcoreinfo note at startup
> [2] s390: Export vmcoreinfo note
> 
> I already have discussed this with Vivek and he has acked the common code
> patch [1].
> 
> Do you agree that Martin sends these patches together with the kdump page
> table patches (see https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/15/55) in the next merge
> window?

Sounds good to me, thanks.
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