[PATCH] kdump: introduce "reset_devices" command line option
authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Wed, 27 Sep 2006 08:50:44 +0000 (01:50 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>
Wed, 27 Sep 2006 15:26:17 +0000 (08:26 -0700)
commit7e96287ddc4f42081e18248b6167041c0908004c
tree6c890798c6c7093c74e3c44324d29ae99fade24f
parentbcdc5e019d9f525a9f181a7de642d3a9c27c7610
[PATCH] kdump: introduce "reset_devices" command line option

Resetting the devices during driver initialization can be a costly
operation in terms of time (especially scsi devices).  This option can be
used by drivers to know that user forcibly wants the devices to be reset
during initialization.

This option can be useful while kernel is booting in unreliable
environment.  For ex.  during kdump boot where devices are in unknown
random state and BIOS execution has been skipped.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
include/linux/init.h
init/main.c