On Thu, 2008-07-31 at 12:24 +0530, Sachin P. Sant wrote:

This patch fixes the /dev/oldmem interface for kdump on ppc64.
The patch originally came from Michael Ellerman hence have
retained the signed-off line. I just rediffed/tested against
latest git. Michael has ack'ed this patch.

Ben this is not a must for 2.6.27 but would be good if it's 
included.

It's been broken long enough, I think it's a must for 27.

Signed-off-by : Michael Ellerman [off-list ref]
Acked-by : Michael Ellerman [off-list ref]

Heh, do I get a prize for being neurotic? ;)  .. Or just stupid, ahem.

I think you should also sign off on it Sachin, see clause (c) of the
developers cert (http://lwn.net/Articles/139918/)

cheers

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