> As an alternative, could kdump_on_fatal_mca be turned on by > default in Altix (in the Altix specific boot code)? Then > we could set our default without impacting other vendors. This is a sysctl variable ... are there any cases where we set these to different default values for different platforms? It would seem better for the kernel to set the default value to the most useful one, and for system owners that don't want the default behaviour to just add an entry to /etc/sysctl.conf to set their preference. I'm not sure how we decide what is the most useful default. So far SGI are voting for enabling dumping for MCA, and Fujitsu have implicitly voted to disable (as that is what Seto-san's patch sets). Any other opinions? -Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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