I don't see the relation of that to always disabling smp_send_stop()
in panic(). You only want to disable it if doing a dump, right?
> Wow ... we spent a ton of time moving all the code _out_ of the
> arch directories as other kernel developers didn't want it there.
Hmm. It certainbly is arch-specific..
> From one perspective, the base dump driver is needed in order to
> provide the upper level dumping capabilities as well as some of
> the architecture-specific functionality. That said, however, if
> you make it a bool, it's either on or off -- some people don't
> want it in the kernel all the time, and shouldn't be required
> to build in.
Well, any chance you could get rid of the remaining
CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP || CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP_MODULE ifdefs when
keeping it as tristate? So that I can just load the module
into any kernel?
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