Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

Bernhard Walle bwalle at suse.de
Fri Jul 13 09:15:50 EDT 2007


* Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> [2007-07-13 13:05]:
> 
> BTW, I'd like to remove PAGESIZE from a mkdfinfo file.
> While 2nd-kernel is running, new makedumpfile comes to consider
> 2nd-kernel PAGESIZE as 1st-kernel PAGESIZE without getting PAGESIZE
> from a mkdfinfo file.

I don't think that's a good idea. IMO the kernel should be modified to
export the page size in a variable for that purpose. That would solve
all problems and dependencies, doesn't it?



Thanks,
   Bernhard



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