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Re: [PATCH 0/2] add new notifier function ,take3

To: Neil Horman <nhorman@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] add new notifier function ,take3
From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:46:34 +0200
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>, Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, nickpiggin@xxxxxxxxxxxx, k-miyoshi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, greg@xxxxxxxxx, kdb@xxxxxxxxxxx, kexec@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Takenori Nagano <t-nagano@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>, Keith Owens <kaos@xxxxxxxxxx>
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* Neil Horman [2008-04-14 10:42]:
>
> I know it doesn't particularly relate to this patch, but FWIW, for cases like
> failover, I've inserted infrastrucutre in the userspace part of kdump for
> Fedora/RHEL to support this sort of thing.  We can run arbitrary scripts 
> righte
> before and after a capture so that notifications can be sent to remote nodes 
> in
> a much safer fashion than using the notifier chain after a panic.

But that doesn't help if you want to use a debugger (KDB, KGDB).


        Bernhard
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