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Message-ID: <20131101003133.GH6818@verge.net.au> Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2013 09:31:33 +0900 From: Simon Horman <horms@...ge.net.au> To: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com> Cc: jerry.hoemann@...com, fengguang.wu@...el.com, kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, HATAYAMA Daisuke <d.hatayama@...fujitsu.com>, bp@...en8.de, ebiederm@...ssion.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, hpa@...ux.intel.com, jingbai.ma@...com Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/3] x86, apic, kexec: Add disable_cpu_apic kernel parameter On Thu, Oct 31, 2013 at 09:27:45AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 06:58:13PM -0600, jerry.hoemann@...com wrote: > > [..] > > Daisuke, > > > > Are you planning on making changes to the kexec tools to automate > > the setting of disable_cpu_apic to the capture kernel? Or do you > > know someone who is planning this? > > I think we should not make this change in kexec-tools and should leave > it to distro scripts to append disable_cpu_apic. > > Who knows in future this restriction is not there at all and kexec-tools > will be stuck with always passing disable_cpu_apic. Getting rid of > this parameter in distro scripts will be much easier. Hi Vivek, Hi Daisuke, That approach sounds reasonable to me. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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