Re: [PATCH 2/2] hpsa: export resettable_on_kexec host attribute

[AmÃrico Wang]

On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 05:10:03PM -0600, Stephen M. Cameron wrote:
>From: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
>This attribute, requested by Redhat, allows kexec-tools to know
>whether the controller can honor the reset_devices kernel parameter
>and actually reset the controller.  For kdump to work properly it
>is necessary that the reset_devices parameter be honored.  This
>attribute enables kexec-tools to warn the user if they attempt to
>designate a non-resettable controller as the dump device.
>
>Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@xxxxxxxxx>

Maybe we should docment this sysfs attribute somewhere?

Thanks.
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