Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 20 Dec 2006 12:32:07 +0100 | From | Sébastien Dugué <> | Subject | Re: Fix IPMI watchdog set_param_str() using kstrdup |
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On Wed, 20 Dec 2006 13:19:09 +0200 "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
> On 12/20/06, Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net> wrote: > > set_param_str() cannot use kstrdup() to duplicate the parameter. That's > > fine when the driver is compiled as a module but it sure is not when > > built into the kernel as the kernel parameters are parsed before the > > kmalloc slabs are setup. > > Aah. I wonder though, if we could defer parsing driver parameters > until kmalloc caches are up...
From a general point of view, why not. Except that for the watchdog case, I want it to start as soon as possible for it to be able to reboot in case of an early crash.
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