Re: Determine version of kernel that produced vmcore

* Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> [2007-07-17 05:50]:
> 
> Thinking more about it. These config variables are accessible in user
> space in first kernel through sysconf() interface. In that case kexec
> can pack required config variables into an ELF note and kernel does not
> have to intervene.

That's a good point. So we'd only need to aggree on a format for all
this information. I think the makedumpfile format is quite good --
instead of inventing another new format.


Thanks,
   Bernhard
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