linux-kernel - Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

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Date:	Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:49:53 +0200
From:	Bernhard Walle <bwalle@...e.de>
To:	Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com>
Cc:	Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@....nes.nec.co.jp>, vgoyal@...ibm.com,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Dan Aloni <da-x@...atomic.org>
Subject: Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

* Don Zickus <dzickus@...hat.com> [2007-07-19 18:39]:
> 
> I am not a big fan of this approach as it forces distros to require
> kexec-tools when building a kernel.  Even Joe Hacker who wants a custom
> kernel (and not interested in kexec) would have to not only download the
> kernel.src.rpm but kexec-tools just to build a kernel that probably
> doesn't have kexec enabled.

He would have to download makedumpfile, not kexec-tools.


Thanks,
   Bernhard
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