Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL from kdump

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jun 26 2008 - 04:25:10 EST


On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:23:21 +0200 Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> I would suggest to remove the "experimental" status from Kdump.
> Kdump is now in the kernel since a long time and used by Enterprise
> distributions. I don't think that "experimental" is true any more.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>
> ---
> arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 -
> fs/Kconfig | 2 +-
> 2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index e0edaaa..f4f255b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -1190,7 +1190,6 @@ config KEXEC
>
> config CRASH_DUMP
> bool "kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> - depends on EXPERIMENTAL
> depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM)
> help
> Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> index cf12c40..b2252a4 100644
> --- a/fs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> @@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ config PROC_KCORE
>
> config PROC_VMCORE
> bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> - depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
> + depends on PROC_FS && CRASH_DUMP
> default y
> help
> Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.

What about powerpc, sh and ia64?


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