Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API

[Eric W. Biederman]

"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> > We really want to get into the new kernel ASAP and clean stuff up from
> > in there.
> 
> As long as the "init" routines are run on every startup (not just kexec ones),
> they should get plenty of testing (though not from bad card state).

And I know for a fact that many init routines won't initialize a
card in a bad state currently.  That is my most frequent failure in
the normal kexec case, when things are not in a 
 
> I still think we could share code by running the shutdown routines from 
> the *new* kernel  before trying to init the card if they're written in a 
> robust way so as to allow it ... is that insane?

As a rough feel yes that is sane.  Redundant but sane.  I would
like to hear what greg thinks of it though.

Eric
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