On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 08:19:07AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > 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 two are somewhat intertwined. Ie, 'crashdump-common' contains quite a bit of diskdump goo. Merging it all was just a shortest path thing.. > > 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 When it settles down a bit in -mm I'll pull it back in, and we'll see what happens. Dave
