From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 03:33:44 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 03:33:44 -0500 Received: from phoenix.infradead.org ([195.224.96.167]:19210 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 03:33:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2003 08:44:56 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390 update (3/9): listing & kerntypes. Message-ID: <20030327084456.A29788@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com References: <20030326164014$3fac@gated-at.bofh.it> <20030326202006$09c8@gated-at.bofh.it> <200303262350.h2QNoqje015366@post.webmailer.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <200303262350.h2QNoqje015366@post.webmailer.de>; from arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de on Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:20:07AM +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 12:20:07AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > AFAIK, s390 is the only architecture that has hardware support for taking > system dumps without the lkcd patch. Since the lkcd patch does not > appear to be going into mainline linux and most s390 users want the > kerntypes anyway (every distributor includes them), arch/s390/boot > seems to be the right place to put them. No. The Kerntypes patch makes lots of sense even without lkcd. Once again I'm all in favour of adding this patch, but adding such a generic facility in architecture depend code is a bad idea.