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authorVivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>2006-09-27 01:50:44 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-09-27 08:26:17 -0700
commit7e96287ddc4f42081e18248b6167041c0908004c (patch)
tree6c890798c6c7093c74e3c44324d29ae99fade24f /include/linux
parentbcdc5e019d9f525a9f181a7de642d3a9c27c7610 (diff)
[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>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/linux')
-rw-r--r--include/linux/init.h1
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/include/linux/init.h b/include/linux/init.h
index 6667785dd1f..e92b1455d7a 100644
--- a/include/linux/init.h
+++ b/include/linux/init.h
@@ -68,6 +68,7 @@ extern initcall_t __security_initcall_start[], __security_initcall_end[];
/* Defined in init/main.c */
extern char saved_command_line[];
+extern unsigned int reset_devices;
/* used by init/main.c */
extern void setup_arch(char **);