Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/17][Kdump] Overview

[Vivek Goyal]

On Mon, 2005-03-28 at 17:48 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >  Following patches (as in series file) need to be dropped before applying
> >  the fresh ones.
> > 
> >  crashdump-documentation.patch
> >  crashdump-memory-preserving-reboot-using-kexec.patch
> >  crashdump-routines-for-copying-dump-pages.patch
> >  crashdump-routines-for-copying-dump-pages-fixes.patch
> >  crashdump-elf-format-dump-file-access.patch
> >  crashdump-linear-raw-format-dump-file-access.patch
> >  crashdump-linear-raw-format-dump-file-access-coding-style.patch
> 
> At some point we should stop tossing out patches and replacing them in this
> manner.


Andrew, I shall take care of sending incremental patches only next time
onwards. The reason why I did this because changes were relatively large
and I thought dropping the existing series and replacing it with new
series (some patches retaining the old name) might be a better idea.


> Because doing so makes it hard for people to see what has changed.  
> 
> It makes it hard for people to see that changes in the above patches
> haven't been simply lost.
> 
> And the fact that you were probably working against some kernel other than
> -mm gives little confidence that the kdump development team have been
> testing the patches which are presently in -mm.  And that is what they are
> there for.
> 
> 
> 

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