Re: [Patch 0/7] Implement crashkernel=auto

Amerigo Wang
2009-08-06T05:56:17Z

Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Amerigo Wang <amwang@redhat.com> 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?