linux-kernel - Re: linux-next: Tree for Mar 20 (vmcore)

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Date:	Thu, 21 Mar 2013 13:20:12 +1100
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
Cc:	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...radead.org>,
	HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: Tree for Mar 20 (vmcore)

Hi,

On Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:10:30 -0700 (PDT) David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com> wrote:
>
> On Wed, 20 Mar 2013, David Rientjes wrote:
> 
> > I don't think that's it, linux/kexec.h already gets included indirectly.  
> > The problem is that CONFIG_KEXEC isn't set so the definition in kexec.h is 
> > meaningless.
> > 
> > This comes from "vmcore: check NT_VMCORE_PAD as a mark indicating the end 
> > of ELF note buffer" merged through the -mm tree.  I've added the patch's 
> > author and Andrew to the cc.
> > 
> > How can this be protected by CONFIG_KEXEC?
> 
> These patches were removed from -mm today so it should no longer be a 
> problem.

What exactly are "these patches" so that I can remove them from my copy
of the mmotm tree (assuming that Andrew does not get a new mmotm released
in the next hour or so).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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