On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 03:28:14PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > Hello, > > does anybody know a _reliable_ way to determine the version the kernel > that produced a vmcore file? This means not scanning for a specific > string or something like that which can fail on random memory. > > Would it make sense to add a ELF PT_NOTE section in the vmcore? > To me it makes sense to append an ELF NOTE to vmcore which can uniquely associate that vmcore with a particular vmlinux file (Some string equivalent to the output of uname -a). Interesting thing is that to find version of vmlinux, you will still be doing <string | grep "some pattern">. Probably then we should append an ELF note to vmlinux file also? Thanks Vivek
