Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore
Bernhard Walle
bwalle at suse.de
Mon Jul 16 08:28:54 EDT 2007
* Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at in.ibm.com> [2007-07-16 14:25]:
>
> Ok. Now there seems to be two ways for accessing such info.
> - Through global variables
> - Export through ELF notes.
>
> Personally, I like the approach taken by Dan Aloni of exporting required
> info through ELF notes. That seems to be more standard in the sense we
> are not dependent on somebody removing above variable tomorrow.
>
> Dan, are you planning to put the modified patch for discussions on LKML?
You mean the proposal with the makedumpfile-compatible ELF note?
Although I like that idea, I think Ken'ichi Ohmichi was against it.
Thanks,
Bernhard
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