makedumpfile question / request

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Fri Apr 17 15:24:38 EDT 2009


Is there a reason that makedumpfile does not fill in the utsname structure
in the compressed dumpfile's header?  

The data structure does get read into a local new_utsname structure in the
check_release() function, but it doesn't get saved and copied into the
disk_dump_header in write_kdump_header().

It would be helpful if that were in place as a quick ID for what the
compressed dumpfile contains.

Dave



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