From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261946AbVFWBIw (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:08:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261952AbVFWBIw (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:08:52 -0400 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:4245 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261946AbVFWBIs (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Jun 2005 21:08:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 18:08:13 -0700 From: Andrew Morton To: Vara Prasad Cc: gh@us.ibm.com, jgarzik@pobox.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status (kexec/kdump) Message-Id: <20050622180813.01515fa4.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <42BA092A.7090408@us.ibm.com> References: <20050621132204.1b57b6ba.akpm@osdl.org> <20050621140441.53513a7a.akpm@osdl.org> <42BA092A.7090408@us.ibm.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Vara Prasad wrote: > > I think all the alternatives out there are less reliable than Kdump > based on the design. Vendors are currently shipping other solutions > since they didn't have any better alternatives until now. The existing > solutions in the two major distro's doesn't work lot of times. I don't > know what percentage of times they work as i only get involved when they > don't work, but i can certainly tell you they don't work many a times. > It is very embarrassing to tell the customer sorry we couldn't get dump > can you try reproducing the problem again. At least two major distros > expressed interest in replacing their current solutions with kdump once > it matures. As you are well aware we are doing testing with as many > configurations as we can to iron out the bugs. Hope this addresses some > of your concerns. Yes, thanks. And the meta-goodness here is that at least we have a *design* which is acceptable from this-is-sane standpoint. So at least everyone will be pulling in the same direction. So as I said, it's a bit of a bet at this point in time, but we've gone as far as we can get with it out-of-tree, so let's merge it and hope that it matures into an acceptably useful dumper.