linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86_64 kexec: Remove experimental mark of kexec

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Date:	Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:20:27 -0700
From:	Piet Delaney <piet@...elane.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	Piet Delaney <piet@...elane.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	fastboot@...l.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 kexec: Remove experimental mark of kexec

On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 14:15 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@...e.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
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