Re: [PATCH][RFC] Netconsole debugging tool for 2.6

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 11:33:11AM -0500, Matt Mackall wrote:

On Tue, Aug 12, 2003 at 03:13:00PM +0100, Jon Burgess wrote:

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Matt Mackall wrote:

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I've decided to take a stab at resurrecting Ingo's netconsole patch.

Is this different from the netdump patch which RedHat include in their 
kernel?

The RH kernel patch is at
http://www.kernelnewbies.org/kernels/rh9/SOURCES/linux-2.4.18-netdump.patch

Ahh, so that's what's become of it.

Theirs:
- does crashdumps
- does syslog without levels
- has hooks for receive

Mine:
- works in 2.6
- has non-appalling configuration
- works as a built-in and is available earlier in boot
- does syslog with levels (haven't posted this though)

netconsole does syslog with levels, too.  I agree netdump/netconsole
have complete awful configuration.  I was thinking netlink would be a
good configurator.

The kernel printk <foo> prefixes map into syslog quite nicely.

In any case, there is my own active effort into cleaning up netdump to
be less x86-specific, and get it ready for mainline.

Maybe we can start discussing converging all these implementations on
netdev@oss.sgi.com?  (that's where the networking developers live)

	Jeff