linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] crash: Default to CRASH_DUMP=n when support for it is unlikely

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Message-ID: <09c29a3c4879d4ce5d8b97fd60d8ba5e38bed979.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2024 20:16:35 +0200
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>, Dave Vasilevsky
	 <dave@...ilevsky.ca>
Cc: bhe@...hat.com, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-sh@...r.kernel.org,
  mpe@...erman.id.au, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
 linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,  Reimar Döffinger
 <Reimar.Doeffinger@....de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] crash: Default to CRASH_DUMP=n when support for it is
 unlikely

Hi Geert,

On Fri, 2024-08-23 at 15:13 +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> IMHO CRASH_DUMP should just default to n, like most kernel options, as
> it enables non-trivial extra functionality: the kernel source tree has
> more than 100 locations that check if CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP is enabled.

I guess we should then revert that part of Baoquan's original patch.

> What is so special about CRASH_DUMP, that it should be enabled by
> default?

Let's ask Baoquan who made the original change to enable CRASH_DUMP by default.

Adrian

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