Hi Satomi-san, On Tue, Oct 21, 2008 at 07:44:15PM +0900, Satomi TANIGUCHI wrote: > Hi Dejan, > > Thank you very very much for taking care of it! > > I'm posting a patch to make the condition for searching and getting the value > of > kdump_check_user more strictly. > It's for Linux-HA Dev a29f1b78dfe5.
I'll apply the patch. > I'm sorry to bother you again. No need to be sorry :) > And I attached a patch for mkdumprd with almost the same modification. > It's for mkdumprd version 5.0.39. > You said "This patch has to go elsewhere, to whoever maintains mkdumprd". > Though I have examined, there is no general way because to add functions > to mkdumprd is a role of each distributer... I see. For suse you can open an enhancement bugzilla at bugzilla.novell.com and attach the patch. Don't know about the other distributions. > And kdumpchecker can't work well with not-patched-mkdumprd. > So, would you apply this as a document like README? The trouble with patching already installed software is that on the next update the changes are lost and that typically makes users unhappy. So, the right way is to push the patch to the distributions, even if it may take more effort. Cheers, Dejan > > Regards, > Satomi TANIGUCHI > > _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
