We have also verified that returning NOTIFY_OK from the hpwdt_pretimeout routine makes the KDUMP feature work correctly.
Bernhard pointed that out a week or so ago and we have since verified it.
Thanks,
Tom
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernhard Walle [mailto:bwalle@suse.de]
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:32 PM
To: Andrew Morton
Cc: Mingarelli, Thomas; linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; wim@iguana.be; stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [WATCHDOG] [hpwdt] Set the mapped BIOS address space as executable
* Andrew Morton [2008-11-18 14:30]:
Right. But I was waiting for feedback from the author since I'm really
not familiar with low level memory management and that driver. :(
Regards,
Bernhard
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