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

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Message-ID: <c1fd73a3941c54e58420d7555524cd6baeebfb96.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2024 07:38:53 +0200
From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@...sik.fu-berlin.de>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, 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,
  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 Michael,

On Mon, 2024-08-26 at 12:02 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > What is so special about CRASH_DUMP, that it should be enabled by
> > default?
>  
> The reality is that essentially all distros enable it. Because they
> don't want to manage separate kernel / crash-kernel packages.
> 
> So IMHO having it enabled by default in upstream does make sense,
> because it more closely matches what distros/users actually run.

Well, at least Debian did not enable it by default as otherwise we wouldn't
have noticed this change downstream.

Adrian

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