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Message-ID: <20150825124945.GB2731@bbox> Date: Tue, 25 Aug 2015 20:49:45 +0800 From: Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@....com> To: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net> Cc: linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Documentation: add 'crashkernel=auto' entry into kernel-parameters.txt On Mon, Aug 24, 2015 at 11:26:23AM -0600, Jonathan Corbet wrote: > On Mon, 24 Aug 2015 23:04:29 +0800 > Yaowei Bai <bywxiaobai@....com> wrote: > > > There is no 'crashkernel=auto' entry in kernel-parameters.txt, borrow it > > from kexec-kdump-howto.txt file in the kexec-tools-2.0.0 package. > > OK, so I did some digging here. As far as I can tell, there is no > crashkernel=auto entry because the auto-reserve patch has never been > merged into the mainline kernel. RHEL kernels appear to have it, but > mainline doesn't. Yes, it's indeed in the RHEL/CentOS kernels. This's my mistake. > > Thus, merging this patch would make the documentation incorrect, > something I'd rather not do. I appreciate efforts to improve the > kernel's documentation, but it is important to be sure that your proposed > changes make the docs closer to reality, rather than further away. Very appreciate your wonderful work. > > Thanks, > > jon -- 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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