Re: [PATCH] crash: Default to CRASH_DUMP=n when support for it is unlikely

John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.ppc.embedded,gmane.linux.ports.sh.devel,gmane.linux.kernel.kexec,gmane.linux.kernel
Message-ID <c1fd73a3941c54e58420d7555524cd6baeebfb96.camel@physik.fu-berlin.de>
Hi Michael,

On Mon, 2024-08-26 at 12:02 +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> > What is so special about CRASH_DUMP, that it should be enabled by
> > default?
>  
> The reality is that essentially all distros enable it. Because they
> don't want to manage separate kernel / crash-kernel packages.
> 
> So IMHO having it enabled by default in upstream does make sense,
> because it more closely matches what distros/users actually run.

Well, at least Debian did not enable it by default as otherwise we wouldn't
have noticed this change downstream.

Adrian

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