From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S940013AbXGSQuS (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:50:18 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1764159AbXGSQt6 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:49:58 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:42841 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1761850AbXGSQt4 convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:49:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 18:49:53 +0200 From: Bernhard Walle To: Don Zickus Cc: "Ken'ichi Ohmichi" , vgoyal@in.ibm.com, Neil Horman , kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Aloni Subject: Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore Message-ID: <20070719164953.GA5381@suse.de> Mail-Followup-To: Don Zickus , Ken'ichi Ohmichi , vgoyal@in.ibm.com, Neil Horman , kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Dan Aloni References: <20070716123633.GA10920@in.ibm.com> <20070718230740oomichi@mail.jp.nec.com> <20070719163915.GN9623@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT In-Reply-To: <20070719163915.GN9623@redhat.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 * Don Zickus [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