Re: [PATCH v3 1/1] kernel/crash_core: Add crashkernel=auto for vmcore creation

[Dave Young]

On 02/17/21 at 02:42pm, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 02:26:53PM -0500, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 12:40:43 -0600
> > john.p.donnelly@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > 
> > > Hello.
> > > 
> > > Ping.
> > > 
> > > Can we get this reviewed and staged ?
> > > 
> > > Thank you.
> > 
> > Andrew,
> > 
> > Seems you are the only one pushing patches in for kexec/crash. Is this
> > maintained by anyone?
> 
> Dave Young and Baoquan He still maintain kexec/kdump stuff, AFAIK. I
> don't get time to look into this stuff now a days. 

Vivek, no problem, both Baoquan and me are on holiday leaves previously.

I'm fine with the change. 
This patch benefits distributions and those people who want to deploy a lot of
machines.  It is a good start and we can continue to improve the estimation later.

Thanks
Dave