Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

From: Bernhard Walle
Date: Thu Jul 19 2007 - 12:50:19 EST


* Don Zickus <dzickus@xxxxxxxxxx> [2007-07-19 18:39]:
>
> I am not a big fan of this approach as it forces distros to require
> kexec-tools when building a kernel. Even Joe Hacker who wants a custom
> kernel (and not interested in kexec) would have to not only download the
> kernel.src.rpm but kexec-tools just to build a kernel that probably
> doesn't have kexec enabled.

He would have to download makedumpfile, not kexec-tools.


Thanks,
Bernhard
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