Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:38:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:37:56 -0500 Received: from smtpde02.sap-ag.de ([194.39.131.53]:9955 "EHLO smtpde02.sap-ag.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:37:39 -0500 From: Christoph Rohland To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o" Cc: richardj_moore@uk.ibm.com, Paul Jakma , Michael Rothwell , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Generalised Kernel Hooks Interface (GKHI) In-Reply-To: <200011101624.LAA22004@tsx-prime.MIT.EDU> Organisation: SAP LinuxLab Date: 10 Nov 2000 17:37:28 +0100 In-Reply-To: "Theodore Y. Ts'o"'s message of "Fri, 10 Nov 2000 11:24:28 -0500" Message-ID: Lines: 18 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0807 (Gnus v5.8.7) XEmacs/21.1 (Bryce Canyon) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Theodore, On Fri, 10 Nov 2000, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote: > P.S. There are some such RAS features which I wouldn't be surprised > there being interest in having integrated into the kernel directly > post-2.4, with no need to put in "kernel hooks" for that particular > feature. A good example of that would be kernel crash dumps. For > all Linux houses which are doing support of customers remotely, > being able to get a crash dump so that developers can investigate a > problem remotely instead of having to fly a developer out to the > customer site is invaluable. In fact, it might be considerd more > valuable than the kernel debugger.... *Yes* :-) Greetings Christoph - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/