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Date: Thu, 27 May 2004 23:02:42 +0900
From: Takao Indoh <indou.takao@soft.fujitsu.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]Diskdump - yet another crash dump function
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Hi,

On Thu, 27 May 2004 15:19:44 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:

>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? 

One of the policy of diskdump is "simple structure".
LKCD has many funcitons (normal dump to disk, network dump, memdump,
 ...), so its structure is somewhat complex.