From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264546AbUE0NuF (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 09:50:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264554AbUE0NuE (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 09:50:04 -0400 Received: from [213.146.154.40] ([213.146.154.40]:60071 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264550AbUE0Ntz (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2004 09:49:55 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 14:49:51 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andi Kleen Cc: Takao Indoh , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH]Diskdump - yet another crash dump function Message-ID: <20040527134951.GB15356@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andi Kleen , Takao Indoh , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20pwP-55v-5@gated-at.bofh.it> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 03:19:44PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > Takao Indoh writes: > > > > Diskdump can be downloaded from here. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/lkdump > > Please see readme.txt which can be downloaded from this site. > > > > Any comments? > > I like the concept - it's basically netconsole for SCSI drivers > and the driver changes are surprisingly simple and clean. > > But it would be better if it coexisted with LKCD so that netdump > would also work. Can't you make it a low level driver for LKCD? LKCD is horribly bloated. IMHO it would be better to get a lean variant of netdump + possible this diskdump in instead of integrating it into the monster LKCD patch.