rawhide report: 20050120 changes
Dave Jones
davej at redhat.com
Fri Jan 21 17:45:35 UTC 2005
On Fri, Jan 21, 2005 at 08:19:07AM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > why is this gunk added back to the fedora kernel?
> > > I can see trying to get kexec-dump working instead as useful, but
> > > diskdump/netdump? God no.
> >
> > It's a transitional thing until upstream has something that's usable.
>
> ok that makes me wonder if diskdump offers value to fedora users at all; it
> doesn't work with lvm (which is the default installation) for example.
The two are somewhat intertwined. Ie, 'crashdump-common' contains quite
a bit of diskdump goo. Merging it all was just a shortest path thing..
> > The kernel-side is still seeing quite a lot of churn judging by
> > the amount of change seen in yesterdays -mm update, and userspace
> > is clearly lacking.
> I thought this was rawhide. Also it's a chicken and egg situation; userspace
> is somewhat there (at least in prototype form) but it will never get there
> unless some kernels ship/enable the kernel side
When it settles down a bit in -mm I'll pull it back in, and we'll see
what happens.
Dave
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