RFC: Reboot behavior for kexec-tools package

2023-09-22 Thread Khalid Aziz
Hello, I implemented automatic kexec reboot support to kexec-tools package many years ago when Debian used init. It worked well except for some corner cases. To support this, I also added a package config option to enable kexec reboots on reboot command. Since Debian started using systemd, au

Re: RFC: Reboot behavior for kexec-tools package

2023-09-22 Thread Khalid Aziz
On 9/22/23 2:01 PM, Luca Boccassi wrote: On Fri, 22 Sept 2023 at 20:41, Khalid Aziz wrote: Any comments/feedback? I intend to proceed with implementing new behavior next week after Wednesday unless there are objections or other ideas. Hi, In the next version of systemd, due in trixie in a

Re: RFC: Reboot behavior for kexec-tools package

2023-09-22 Thread Khalid Aziz
On 9/22/23 4:26 PM, Michael Biebl wrote: Am 22.09.23 um 21:40 schrieb Khalid Aziz: I want to change the behavior to: - No package config option to do automatic kexec reboot. - "reboot" command causes a cold reboot - Use "kexec-reboot" command to do a kexec reboot. "k