linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] crash_dump: Add vmcore_elf32_check

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1602081705150.15885@tp.orcam.me.uk>
Date:	Mon, 8 Feb 2016 17:05:37 +0000
From:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...tec.com>
To:	Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>
CC:	Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>, <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	<linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] crash_dump: Add vmcore_elf32_check_arch

On Mon, 8 Feb 2016, Daniel Wagner wrote:

> parse_crash_elf{32|64}_headers will check the headers via the
> elf_check_arch respectively vmcore_elf64_check_arch macro.
> 
> The MIPS architecture implements those two macros differently.
> In order to make the differentiation more explicit, let's introduce
> an vmcore_elf32_check_arch to allow the archs to overwrite it.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Daniel Wagner <daniel.wagner@...-carit.de>
> Suggested-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@...tec.com>
> ---

Reviewed-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro@...tec.com>

  Maciej