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Message-ID: <20070923201943.GA5272@suse.de>
Date:	Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:19:43 +0200
From:	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>
To:	Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 1/7] Extended crashkernel command line

* Oleg Verych <olecom@...wer.upol.cz> [2007-09-23 01:14]:
> * Thu, 20 Sep 2007 19:18:46 +0200
> 
> []
> >  extern u32 vmcoreinfo_note[VMCOREINFO_NOTE_SIZE/4];
> >  extern unsigned int vmcoreinfo_size;
> >  extern unsigned int vmcoreinfo_max_size;
> > +int __init parse_crashkernel(char *cmdline, unsigned long long system_ram,
> > +		unsigned long long *crash_size, unsigned long long *crash_base);
> 
> (BTW, why `system_ram' is `unsigned long' in parse_crashkernel_mem() but
> `unsigned long long' in parse_crashkernel()?)

Because that's a bug, thanks for spotting that out. I will sent an
updated version of this patch until the issue below has been
clarified:

> What is the point of not using `ulong' and `u64'?
> 
> What about another names?
> 
>  +int __init get_crashkernel_params(u64 *memsize, u64 *addrbase, char *cmdline, u64 ram);

Andrew, what's your opinion on this? Whould I resend the patch with
shorter type names?


Thanks,
   Bernhard
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