From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754004AbZHFF4R (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 01:56:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753855AbZHFF4Q (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 01:56:16 -0400 Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:48600 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753766AbZHFF4P (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Aug 2009 01:56:15 -0400 Message-ID: <4A7A70E5.2010204@redhat.com> Date: Thu, 06 Aug 2009 13:57:57 +0800 From: Amerigo Wang User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090719) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Eric W. Biederman" CC: Neil Horman , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, tony.luck@intel.com, linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Ingo Molnar , Anton Vorontsov Subject: Re: [Patch 0/7] Implement crashkernel=auto References: <20090805112123.6552.73574.sendpatchset@localhost.localdomain> <20090805140408.GJ7259@hmsreliant.think-freely.org> <4A7A3A78.7080200@redhat.com> <4A7A506B.2060008@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Amerigo Wang writes: > > >>> No the crashdump mechanism is useless because user space is already >>> broken and unusable. >>> >> Again, why broken? >> > > To get a stock stat drive by hand I had to list about 5 kernel modules > in the right magic order in /etc/kdump.conf > > Neither mount by label or mount by uuid when specified in /etc/kdump.conf > I had to hack mkdumprd to get an initrd that even finds the proper disk > to mount. > You are saying that there is some difficulty to make a initrd for kdump, but I am sorry that I can't see any relations between this and my patch. What is your point here?