svn commit: r212964 - head/sys/kern

[Andriy Gapon]

on 22/09/2010 22:58 John Baldwin said the following:

> Agreed.  FWIW, I actually think that this is the only change needed as
> crashinfo is enabled by default in 8.x and later.  We already include symbols
> in kernels by default now, so just setting dumpdev will give you the same
> info you generally can get from a textdump in the form of a simple
> /var/crash/core.txt.N file.
> 
> The other benefit of full crashdumps + crashinfo as compared to textdumps is
> that a developer can request further information in a PR followup (fire up
> kgdb and enter command 'X' and reply with the output).  With a textdump any
> info not collected by the textdump is lost once the machine reboots after the
> crash.

Agree++
But what was the reason that dumpdev="AUTO" was reverted?
I remember that POLA was quoted at the time.
I am not sure what the astonishment actually was - perhaps 'AUTO' was not smart
enough and destroyed somebody's data?

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Andriy Gapon