Re: rawhide report: 20050120 changes

[Dave Jones <davej redhat com>]

On Thu, Jan 20, 2005 at 03:01:37PM +0100, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

 > > kernel-2.6.10-1.1103_FC4
 > > ------------------------
 > > * Wed Jan 19 2005 Dave Jones <davej redhat com>
 > > - Re-add diskdump/netdump based on Jeff Moyers patches.
 > > - Rebase to -bk7
 > 
 > why is this gunk added back to the fedora kernel?
 > I can see trying to get kexec-dump working instead as useful, but
 > diskdump/netdump? God no.

It's a transitional thing until upstream has something that's usable.

The kernel-side is still seeing quite a lot of churn judging by
the amount of change seen in yesterdays -mm update, and userspace
is clearly lacking.

Until we have all the pieces, this is what we have as a stopgap.

		Dave