linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low

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Message-ID: <515A083B.7050508@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 01 Apr 2013 15:20:43 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, WANG Chao <chaowang@...hat.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: use Crash kernel for Crash kernel low

On 04/01/2013 03:17 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
> 
> And his last suggestion is just as his old second suggestion.
> 
> I just check the code again, it looks it is easy to change it to support:
> 1. crashkernel=XM
> 2. crashkernel_high=XM
> 3. crashkernel_high=XM crashkernel_low=YM
> 

Yes... my objections that you are giving the user the headache of
dealing with this very much remains, but I don't think we have any good
options.  However, the <size>,<options>.... syntax is at least
extensible, which the above syntax is not.

	-hpa


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