On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 09:41:51PM -0500, Dave Jones wrote: > On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:01:37PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > > kernel-2.6.10-1.1103_FC4 > > > ------------------------ > > > * Wed Jan 19 2005 Dave Jones <davej@xxxxxxxxxx> > > > - Re-add diskdump/netdump based on Jeff Moyers patches. > > > - Rebase to -bk7 > > > > why is this gunk added back to the fedora kernel? > > I can see trying to get kexec-dump working instead as useful, but > > diskdump/netdump? God no. > > It's a transitional thing until upstream has something that's usable. ok that makes me wonder if diskdump offers value to fedora users at all; it doesn't work with lvm (which is the default installation) for example. > > The kernel-side is still seeing quite a lot of churn judging by > the amount of change seen in yesterdays -mm update, and userspace > is clearly lacking. I thought this was rawhide. Also it's a chicken and egg situation; userspace is somewhat there (at least in prototype form) but it will never get there unless some kernels ship/enable the kernel side
