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Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 20:39:35 -0300
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: Richard J Moore <richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com>
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Richard J Moore wrote:
> and so do many people. In fact netdump, mcode and lkcd are all
> complementary parts of the same need.

It's the "complementary" that worries me. Once you have mcore, what
good are direct dumps to the network or the disk for ? With mcore,
the whole issue of accessing stable storage is eliminated.

I don't know if the approach of having multiple quasi-equivalent
means of storing a dump is something that Linus dislikes about
LKCD, but I think it might be worth exploring if LKCD's chance of
acceptance could be improved by focusing on a single but general
mechanism.

I think it would be a pity if we ended up not having crash dumps
in 2.6 only because they're over-featured ...

- Werner

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