Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

Bernhard Walle bwalle at suse.de
Thu Jul 19 12:49:53 EDT 2007


* Don Zickus <dzickus at redhat.com> [2007-07-19 18:39]:
> 
> I am not a big fan of this approach as it forces distros to require
> kexec-tools when building a kernel.  Even Joe Hacker who wants a custom
> kernel (and not interested in kexec) would have to not only download the
> kernel.src.rpm but kexec-tools just to build a kernel that probably
> doesn't have kexec enabled.

He would have to download makedumpfile, not kexec-tools.


Thanks,
   Bernhard



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