Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1764159AbXEYRW6 (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 13:22:58 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1762182AbXEYRWv (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 13:22:51 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.13]:37178 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752779AbXEYRWt (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 May 2007 13:22:49 -0400 Date: Fri, 25 May 2007 10:21:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds To: Chuck Ebbert cc: Chris Newport , Ingo Molnar , Christoph Lameter , Michal Piotrowski , Andrew Morton , LKML , "Cherwin R. Nooitmeer" , linux-pcmcia@lists.infradead.org, Robert de Rooy , Alan Cox , Tejun Heo , sparclinux@vger.kernel.org, David Miller , Mikael Pettersson , linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Stefan Richter , Kristian H?gsberg , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Pavel Machek , Marcus Better , Andrey Borzenkov , linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, Greg Kroah-Hartman Subject: Re: [2/3] 2.6.22-rc2: known regressions v2 In-Reply-To: <465717BE.6070102@redhat.com> Message-ID: References: <46558708.2040803@googlemail.com> <46559B54.80106@googlemail.com> <20070524193740.GA6787@elte.hu> <20070525101105.GA9268@elte.hu> <4656CE39.8050800@netunix.com> <465717BE.6070102@redhat.com> 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 Content-Length: 624 Lines: 19 On Fri, 25 May 2007, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > Windows can dump memory to the swap file on crash. Default is a "minidump" > IIRC but you can set it to dump all memory (or none.) And Linux can too. And exactly as with Windows, nobody should ever use it. It's a *developer* thing. It's not a user debug facility. And even developers are not all that likely to use it. Linus - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/