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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Linus Torvalds wrote:

> 	In particular when it comes to this project, I'm told about
> 	"netdump", which doesn't try to dump to a disk, but over the net.
> 	And quite frankly, my immediate reaction is to say "Hell, I
> 	_never_ want the dump touching my disk, but over the network
> 	sounds like a great idea".
> 
> To me this says "LKCD is stupid". Which means that I'm not going to apply 
> it, and I'm going to need some real reason to do so - ie being proven 
> wrong in the field.

How do you deal with netdump when your network driver is what caused the 
crash?

Ideally I would like to see a dump framework that can have a number of 
possible dump targets.  We should be able to dump to any combination of 
network, serial, disk, flash, unused ram that isn't wiped over restarts, 
etc...

Chris

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