From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965651AbXGSRIj (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:08:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S938451AbXGSRHc (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:07:32 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:59194 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S939205AbXGSRH3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:07:29 -0400 Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:59:32 -0400 From: Don Zickus To: "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: <20070719165932.GO9623@redhat.com> References: <20070716123633.GA10920@in.ibm.com> <20070718230740oomichi@mail.jp.nec.com> <20070719163915.GN9623@redhat.com> <20070719164953.GA5381@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070719164953.GA5381@suse.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.14 (2007-02-12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 06:49:53PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * 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. My apologies. Red Hat packages makedumpfile under kexec-tools, hence my confusion. Cheers, Don