[makedumpfile] config file -- OSRELEASE

[Eric W. Biederman]

Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> writes:

> * Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> [2007-06-01 11:07]:
>> 
>> Now, the items makedumpfile cannot get from vmlinux statically are
>> only version and page size. Do you have any idea for getting them
>> from vmlinux ?
>
> I already tried to address a similar issue (version + command line
> length for kexec-tools) by adding a ELF note. But it seems that kernel
> hackers didn't like it.
>
> http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.fastboot.general/3996/.

I'm not seeing the discussion there.

Looking at the patch I'm not quite certain of the composition of your
notes. 

However as a general direction of using ELF notes I'm more or less
in favor of it.

Eric