[Crash-utility] introduce a new command to display the disk's information
Dave Anderson
anderson at redhat.com
Mon Jan 30 20:56:31 UTC 2012
----- Original Message -----
> >
> > Fifth, I tried it on a much older RHEL3 kernel, which shows:
> >
> > crash> dev -d
> > dev: invalid request_queue.in_flight's size
> > crash>
>
> I do not have such kernel. What is the version of such kernel?
> >
> > It's not really invalid size, but it's more the case that you
> > don't support that old a kernel version. In that case, instead
> > of doing this:
> >
> > error(FATAL, "invalid request_queue.in_flight's size\n");
> >
> > you should do this instead:
> >
> > option_not_supported('d');
>
> Good idea.
RHEL3 was a 2.4.21-based kernel, where the request_queue didn't have
the in_flight member. So the use of the option_not_supported() is
good enough.
Dave
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