Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

Bernhard Walle
2007-07-19T16:50:18Z

* Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.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