On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 04:21:27PM -0500, Neil Horman wrote: > Hey all- > It would be nice to be able to extract the dmesg log from a vmcore file > without needing to keep the debug symbols for the running kernel handy all the > time. We have a facility to do this in /proc/vmcore. This patch adds the > log_buf and log_end symbols to the vmcoreinfo area so that tools (like > makedumpfile) can easily extract the dmesg logs from a vmcore image. > > Regards > Neil > > Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman at tuxdriver.com> THis sounds reasonable to me. -- Simon Horman VA Linux Systems Japan K.K., Sydney, Australia Satellite Office H: www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: www.valinux.co.jp/en
