From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751795AbeA0Ect convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:32:49 -0500 Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.21]:58702 "EHLO mout.gmx.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751405AbeA0Ecs (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Jan 2018 23:32:48 -0500 Message-ID: <1517027565.10239.61.camel@gmx.de> Subject: Re: crash binary for latest unreleased kernel From: Mike Galbraith To: Joe Smith , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Date: Sat, 27 Jan 2018 05:32:45 +0100 In-Reply-To: References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-15" X-Mailer: Evolution 3.20.5 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Provags-ID: V03:K0:qMOYTvLM6CvwewiIizD+AmMGt75E8vCWA1DjFM7OHmcFKWyXNIn RDBuG+DTPrUHj6+9SFBkOD4maKeqNltq6Xqbe0Kvo1BHUWl9nYyzbb10nKAOqPMKdG0aGM8 LtQ4dIMeyBwhLj9VP5zoNvfBVysjN+asc0ORICLpUAyzF6JKeZhCVRnj3UqJjzPmBoOP6B6 jR/nyT0WRp7Wr9yZgu0/g== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:6n958Kmbdbw=:4VKtW4eYHytNLokH9CiPL7 mgUMVNsYoBlAgum0V+4MHICSWYp1un+Tz/JzYYSOFk8CR4wYpKlW1Y2eb9v+JPwlWOGskrRWS g2XP0/obYI9JJnSfUGMchKI0A8OuSjNXhYsNbDZuBmQYtnAkMcz0bv7sUy5osC7cE9ofbKvnE 6FY/OFpgWPARaWTmqGRuKL5As2y/D6MjcVfKBdqdsqxmj2Qs4+ktkjlkH0eezxcF5seCPiFzx cHjnzym3rBAsP1jZAwEHh7F6IVr/QVktF8I8IG14OPKeqfmfrJv1HBTgPdX+dqvk0diE/2iOq c6A3wReuMxaJbT6gtfvBY7HpQFQsh76L0DRhDVhwBQFHDtac1SQ6jnIxwizNJLmVta+/nHJpL m036VyieWVKMblt4mCIiQfl1JpfOd67P7ty49eaB/rroEMaGVYZnNPyvcK9WfbraUGc9DqIOb qf6gs9OgTvtXIQgsXlgPlpZ3pFgj6O5huo82lPEJphjoWIIrbjgAycNibbNkEBi9DeqDvxEkm sEp5NfAeB+GCfhze5Dy7GNcRdEsSwIqX6LvknP2In7cI2S/d0r5XRomW+truJZu9okuqR30KY FZh8ilAY7SmWhybDMuP9829Qau5d9g4kneuKvL7Y4ITY+eMAf3U2Xx9Kq4at/dHM6r76ViE/X jjP4UHycNRbP5iLEiKO+kOovJ4/aAZsV0DojD7mzlRgMb09WRL1GNBl0n5qmfEzSX6+zVq0/9 8Sj4ru0UaFV5+KbfULe99luzazlDumG/NqhIfI8kSClPajYvKNqn/I9UKW7omKxcQIMpekkCT O2dtdW/uOaVbXsY4NNF9oxqJ+S5Drat6guanOIMnzKFYUBR/As= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 12:52 -0800, Joe Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I am doing development on the latest unreleased kernel on a system > running ubuntu 16.04. I can not get crash dump to be saved or use > crash on the live system. I have tried compiling crash on the system. > > What is the trick to do development on the latest kernel using a > system installed with old release. You have to either be motivated enough to fix crash and friends up as they get busted, or lazy enough to wait for maintainers to do so for you.  I've done a bit of both, but the later is my favorite :) -Mike