From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262142AbVC2Bsr (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:48:47 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262143AbVC2Bsr (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:48:47 -0500 Received: from fire.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:57002 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262142AbVC2Bsn (ORCPT ); Mon, 28 Mar 2005 20:48:43 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 17:48:27 -0800 From: Andrew Morton To: Vivek Goyal Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, fastboot@lists.osdl.org, ebiederm@xmission.com Subject: Re: [RFC/PATCH 0/17][Kdump] Overview Message-Id: <20050328174827.414a90a9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <1112016341.4001.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <1112016341.4001.71.camel@localhost.localdomain> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.9.7 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Vivek Goyal wrote: > > Following patches (as in series file) need to be dropped before applying > the fresh ones. > > crashdump-documentation.patch > crashdump-memory-preserving-reboot-using-kexec.patch > crashdump-routines-for-copying-dump-pages.patch > crashdump-routines-for-copying-dump-pages-fixes.patch > crashdump-elf-format-dump-file-access.patch > crashdump-linear-raw-format-dump-file-access.patch > crashdump-linear-raw-format-dump-file-access-coding-style.patch At some point we should stop tossing out patches and replacing them in this manner. Because doing so makes it hard for people to see what has changed. It makes it hard for people to see that changes in the above patches haven't been simply lost. And the fact that you were probably working against some kernel other than -mm gives little confidence that the kdump development team have been testing the patches which are presently in -mm. And that is what they are there for.