linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/2] add new notifier function

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Date:	Fri, 05 Oct 2007 07:01:17 -0600
From:	ebiederm@...ssion.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To:	Takenori Nagano <t-nagano@...jp.nec.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, vgoyal@...ibm.com,
	k-miyoshi@...jp.nec.com, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>, Keith Owens <kaos@....com.au>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, kdb@....sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] add new notifier function

Takenori Nagano <t-nagano@...jp.nec.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
> These patches add new notifier function and implement it to panic_notifier_list.
> We used the hardcoded notifier chain so far, but it was not flexible. New
> notifier is very flexible, because user can change a list of order by debugfs.

How is the lack of flexibility a problem?
Specifics please.

My impression is that the purpose of this patchset is to build
infrastructure to sort out a conflict between kdb and the kexec code,
which it does not do, and it can not do if it does not own up to
it's real purpose.

If I am correct in understanding the purpose of this patchset it does
not even address the problem it is aimed at solving.

Eric
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