Re: Bug#469256: kexec-tools: Please use a boolean question with debconf
On Fri, 2008-04-04 at 14:17 +0100, MJ Ray wrote:
> Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> > You might need to explain us in more details what is a "kexec'able" kernel.
>
> I think I would write either kexec-enabled or kexec-ready, depending
> on whether it is the kernel that can kexec, or the kernel to be loaded
> by kexec, respectively.
>
> Hope that helps,
I like this idea. OTOH I am wondering if this term can be dropped
altogether. kexec has been cleaned up enough that a standard kernel can
be kexec'd cleanly. It is only the kdump kernel that has to be built
specifically for that purpose. So even though kdump uses kexec to load
the kdump kernel, there is probably no need to let that influence the
kexec template. So with that it might be appropriate to change the
description to:
"Please choose whether to enable kexec-tools to load a new kernel
automatically on reboots and kexec into the new kernel instead of
rebooting into firmware."
Any thoughts?
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Khalid Aziz
khalid@debian.org
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