svn commit: r219138 - head/usr.bin/kdump

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Chagin Dmitry <dchagin at freebsd.org> (from Thu, 3 Mar 2011  
21:05:07 +0300):

> On Thu, Mar 03, 2011 at 02:14:58PM +0100, Alexander Leidinger wrote:
>> Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> (from Thu, 3 Mar 2011
>> 11:14:59 +0000 (GMT)):
>>
>> >
>> > On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Dmitry Chagin wrote:
>> >
>> >> Teach kdump to decode linux syscalls names too.
>> >>
>> >> Fix bug introduced in my previous commit: the kernel always dump native
>> >> signal numbers, so no need to check the ABI in ktrpsig().
>> >
>> > Does this mean that we're eliminating the need for the long-broken
>> > linux_kdump?
>>
>> For the linux parts there is (L?)GPLed code in linux_kdump (the main
>> reason that it is a port, I think), it is unlikely that someone sits
>> there and will do a clean-room implementation of those linux-kernel
>> derived things (I like to get proven wrong, anyone out there accepts
>> the challenge? ;-) ). Dmitry provided an updated linux-kdump which
>> contains preprocessed things (no need to have a non-default
>> linuxulator setup). I have the corresponding PR assigned to me, but
>> from his comments it looks like his new version depends upon his
>> changes and does not DTRT without them (I am awaiting confirmation,
>> and I asked about changes to let it DTRT if this is true).
>>
>
> It will be mergeed soon, I'll let you know. thnx!

My comments where not about a MFC, they are about modifying the new  
linux_kdump to still work on 8.1 or 7.4 (we still support those  
release in ports).

Bye,
Alexander.

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