From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1760390AbXGPM3F (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:29:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751990AbXGPM2z (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:28:55 -0400 Received: from ns2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:41181 "EHLO mx2.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751632AbXGPM2z (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:28:55 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 14:28:54 +0200 From: Bernhard Walle To: Vivek Goyal Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, "Ken'ichi Ohmichi" Subject: Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore Message-ID: <20070716122854.GC32519@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Vivek Goyal , kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Ken'ichi Ohmichi References: <20070710120243.GA10121@hmsendeavour.rdu.redhat.com> <20070713200533oomichi@mail.jp.nec.com> <20070713131550.GB10985@suse.de> <20070716041918.GA11390@in.ibm.com> <20070716115707.GA29923@suse.de> <20070716122518.GA10506@in.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070716122518.GA10506@in.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Vivek Goyal [2007-07-16 14:25]: > > Ok. Now there seems to be two ways for accessing such info. > - Through global variables > - Export through ELF notes. > > Personally, I like the approach taken by Dan Aloni of exporting required > info through ELF notes. That seems to be more standard in the sense we > are not dependent on somebody removing above variable tomorrow. > > Dan, are you planning to put the modified patch for discussions on LKML? You mean the proposal with the makedumpfile-compatible ELF note? Although I like that idea, I think Ken'ichi Ohmichi was against it. Thanks, Bernhard