Bug 144068

Summary:	latest kernel breaks netdump
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Phil Anderson <pza>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Dave Jones <davej>
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Version:	3	CC:	barryn, pfrields, wtogami
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Description Phil Anderson 2005-01-04 11:24:12 UTC

Description of problem:
The latest kernel breaks netdump, as it is is misisng netdump.ko.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
2.6.9-1.724_FC3 

How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Update to 2.6.9-1.724_FC3 
2. service netdump start
  
Actual results:
initializing netdump FATAL: Module netdump not found.
initializing netconsole FATAL: Error inserting netconsole
(/lib/modules/2.6.9-1.724_FC3smp/kernel/drivers/net/netconsole.ko):
Invalid argument

Comment 1 Barry K. Nathan 2005-01-05 15:51:54 UTC

The netdump module also seems to be missing from 2.6.10-1.727_FC3

Comment 2 Phil Anderson 2005-01-11 20:39:59 UTC

Still broken in 2.6.10-1.737_FC3

Comment 3 Sitsofe Wheeler 2005-01-12 10:28:22 UTC

I remember reading in the kernel changelogs that it had been taken out in
preperation of being replaced with a new kexec system...

Hmm just found this:
http://diary.codemonkey.org.uk/index.php?month=12&year=2004#20041216 and this
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-December/msg00637.html

Comment 4 Phil Anderson 2005-01-12 10:56:31 UTC

Surely this is a mistake to remove it from the FC3 kernel though

Comment 5 Barry K. Nathan 2005-01-12 13:41:44 UTC

Given that they dropped 4g4g (and seeing how that affected some people
severely), who knows if it was intentional or a mistake.

Comment 6 Dave Jones 2005-01-12 17:47:35 UTC

it was intentional, as it rejected once I rebased and various other
patches got dropped. rediffing it and getting it back into fc2/fc3 is
on my todo list, though there are higher priority things right now.

Comment 7 Dave Jones 2005-01-18 23:21:15 UTC

fixed in cvs, will be in the next build.