linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v8 4/5] crash: export paddr_vmcoreinfo

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Date:   Thu, 23 Nov 2017 06:36:57 -0800
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Marc-André Lureau <marcandre.lureau@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, somlo@....edu, xiaolong.ye@...el.com,
        qemu-devel@...gnu.org, mst@...hat.com,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@...hat.com>, Dave Young <dyoung@...hat.com>,
        Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 4/5] crash: export paddr_vmcoreinfo_note()

On Thu, Nov 23, 2017 at 03:02:05PM +0100, Marc-André Lureau wrote:
> The following patch is going to use the symbol from the fw_cfg module,
> to call the function and write the note location details in the
> vmcoreinfo entry, so qemu can produce dumps with the vmcoreinfo note.

Sounds like fw_cfg should be moved to be built in only instead of
exporting such a symbol address.