[Crash-utility] reason for being

[Neil Horman]

On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 09:22:59AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
> 
> 
> Welcome aboard -- even if you don't want to be on deck!
> 
> My arm's been twisted into creating this list for things like
> crash usage questions, bug reports, patch postings, feature
> requests, release announcements, and the like.
> 
> Actually the real impetus for this list comes from the upstream
> kernel development of kexec/kdump facility as a generally-accepted
> manner of saving kernel core dumps.  And as such, the crash utility
> will be updated to support the new kdump vmcore format, while
> continuing support for netdump and diskdump, and with a little
> help from my friends, LKCD.
> 
> If you are wondering, I have seeded the subscriber list with
> several prolific crash users and developers.  I'll also put a pointer
> to this list in the crash.changelog file on my people site, which I'm
> guessing may bring in several more.  We shall see...
> 
> In any case, I won't be insulted if you unsubscribe immediately.
> For those who do stick around, please feel free to post on this
> list messages that you have previously sent directly to me.
> 
> Thanks,
>   Dave Anderson
> 
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Thanks dave, this will keep me from having to pester you with crash questions
directly :)
Neil

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