I hope these are not too small to bring to your attention.. but here's a
couple of things I noticed today, after downing lkcd 4
The README.lkcd refers several times to "/sbin/vmdump", however it seems
that in rev 4, the should now be /sbin/lkcd
Also, the webpage (http://lkcd.sourceforge.net/) has a link to
the "Mailing List" which does not work.
On a slightly more technical note, installing the kernel patch
(lkcd-2.4.8-4.0.diff) resulted in a broken arch/i386/config.in (at
least 'make xconfig' thought it was broken).
The following block was added near the end of the file:
tristate 'Linux Kernel Crash Dump (LKCD) Support' CONFIG_DUMP
if [ "$CONFIG_DUMP" = "y" ]; then
dep_bool ' LKCD RLE compression' CONFIG_DUMP_COMPRESS_RLE $CONFIG_DUMP
elif [ "$CONFIG_DUMP" = "m" ]; then
dep_tristate ' LKCD RLE compression' CONFIG_DUMP_COMPRESS_RLE $CONFIG_DUMP
fi
A quick check of Documentation/kbuild/config-language.txt show's no
"elif" ( this is with a 2.4.8 tree). The workaround was trivial, given
that I wasn't intending to compile lkcd as a module.
Sorry to bring up such silly little things, but I suppose they should get fixed.
- jim
p.s. If I were to have changes for lkcd in the future, should I submit those
as a 'patch' file, to this alias, or is there a different/preferred method.
--
James Washer
IBM Linux Change Team
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