On Tuesday 08 April 2008 12:54:13 pm Luck, Tony wrote: > > 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? I'd like dumping on MCA to be enabled by default. -- 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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