[Crash-utility] [PATCH] netdump: Add a helper function to check if registers is available for a given active task in ELF notes

[Dave Anderson]

----- Original Message -----
> From: Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com>
> Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] netdump: Add a helper function to
> check if registers is available for a given active task in ELF notes
> Date: Mon, 4 Apr 2011 09:21:11 -0400 (EDT)
> 
> > OK, so where do we stand here? Should I take your defs.h and netdump.c
> > patches as they are? (perhaps with the error() panic/active argument fix)
> > Or do you want to export "nd" and move some of the changes back into
> > the gcore module? (if that makes sense)
> 
> Well, could you export "nd" by deleating static or by adding
> get_netdump_vmcore_data() at next release? It's your choise on
> removing a serise of get_arch_regs_from_elf_notes(). Anyway if you
> removed them, I would reimplement get_x86_64_regs_from_elf_notes(),
> which is only necessary function for me, in gcore extension module
> through the exported "nd".

Yeah, but as you pointed out, those functions were originally put there for
other extension modules, so I'll keep them around.  And since your patch 
simplifies and improves them, I'll queue it for the next release -- with
the minor fix to get_regs_from_elf_notes(). 

Thanks,
  Dave