Re: [PATCH]Diskdump - yet another crash dump function

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Thu May 27 2004 - 08:52:57 EST


On Thu, May 27, 2004 at 03:19:44PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> Takao Indoh <indou.takao@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> > Diskdump can be downloaded from here.
> > http://sourceforge.net/projects/lkdump
> > Please see readme.txt which can be downloaded from this site.
> >
> > Any comments?
>
> I like the concept - it's basically netconsole for SCSI drivers
> and the driver changes are surprisingly simple and clean.
>
> But it would be better if it coexisted with LKCD so that netdump
> would also work. Can't you make it a low level driver for LKCD?

LKCD is horribly bloated. IMHO it would be better to get a lean
variant of netdump + possible this diskdump in instead of integrating
it into the monster LKCD patch.

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