Re: [PATCH] Remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL from kdump

[Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:23:21 +0200 Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> wrote:

> I would suggest to remove the "experimental" status from Kdump.
> Kdump is now in the kernel since a long time and used by Enterprise
> distributions. I don't think that "experimental" is true any more.
> 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
> ---
>  arch/x86/Kconfig |    1 -
>  fs/Kconfig       |    2 +-
>  2 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/x86/Kconfig b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> index e0edaaa..f4f255b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/Kconfig
> +++ b/arch/x86/Kconfig
> @@ -1190,7 +1190,6 @@ config KEXEC
>  
>  config CRASH_DUMP
>  	bool "kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> -	depends on EXPERIMENTAL
>  	depends on X86_64 || (X86_32 && HIGHMEM)
>  	help
>  	  Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
> diff --git a/fs/Kconfig b/fs/Kconfig
> index cf12c40..b2252a4 100644
> --- a/fs/Kconfig
> +++ b/fs/Kconfig
> @@ -930,7 +930,7 @@ config PROC_KCORE
>  
>  config PROC_VMCORE
>          bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> -        depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP
> +        depends on PROC_FS && CRASH_DUMP
>  	default y
>          help
>          Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format.

What about powerpc, sh and ia64?