Re: [PATCH 0/2 RESEND v7] add reserved e820 ranges to the kdump kernel e820 table

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Mon Nov 26 2018 - 13:54:40 EST


On 11/23/18 9:12 PM, Lianbo Jiang wrote:
> These patches add the new I/O resource descriptor 'IORES_DESC_RESERVED'
> for the iomem resources search interfaces, and in order to make it still
> work after the new descriptor is added, these codes originally related
> to 'IORES_DESC_NONE' have been updated.

This is rather anemic "0/" text. Could you please include some more
background in here? The 2/2 patch is pretty good in this regard, but it
needs to be here, too.