Re: [linux-usb-devel] Re: [BK PATCH] USB changes for 2.5.34

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com)
Tue, 10 Sep 2002 18:02:10 -0400


Bill Davidsen wrote:
> I've often wondered if it wouldn't be better to allow the user to provide
> a partition for oops use, where the kernel could write kmen and a few
> chosen other bit of information. Get all the oops output formatting code
> out of the kernel. Then the user could run tools like ksymoops against the
> oops after reboot, and a small utility could wrap and compress the oops,
> symbols table, config, etc, for future use by the user or developer.

IOW, Linux Kernel Crash Dumps, something I've wanted for a long while.

http://lkcd.sourceforge.net/

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