[Crash-utility] [PATCH 00/12] make crash-trace-command compatible for many different kernels

Dave Anderson anderson at redhat.com
Mon Jan 24 15:34:15 UTC 2011



----- Original Message -----
> The crash tools and the extensions must work for all various kernels.
> The trace.so is for rhel6 kernel(2.6.32) original, it is outdated,
> these patches fix it. Now it works for all 2.6.xx kernels(including
> 2.6.38-RC1) which have ftrace.
> 
> The major difference between current kernel and old kernel is that,
> struct ftrace_event_class was introduced to ftrace
> as Jeff noted. So these patches add a lot of
> struct ftrace_event_class related code, thanks to Jeff.
> 
> Also thanks to Dave for many suggestions.
> 
> All the code were applied to:
> git://github.com/laijs/tracing-extension-module-for-crash.git
> 
> Thanks a lot.
> Lai

Queued for the next release.

Thanks,
  Dave




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