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Bug 253852

Summary:	Need to backport makedumpfile changes for reading elf notes
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5	Reporter:	Neil Horman <nhorman>
Component:	kexec-tools	Assignee:	Neil Horman <nhorman>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	low
Version:	5.1	CC:	i-kitayama, oomichi, qcai, tachibana, tao
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Fixed In Version:	RHBA-2008-0313	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Neil Horman 2007-08-22 13:13:06 UTC

Description of problem:
Need to backport the makedumpfile changes from this thread:
http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-August/000521.html
To support the reading of vmcore elf notes so that a config fiel is no longer
needed.  This corresponds to bz 253850
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Comment 1 Neil Horman 2007-08-30 23:40:28 UTC

*** Bug 253850 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Comment 4 Neil Horman 2007-09-19 19:02:46 UTC

checked into my private 5.2 branch.  Will merge once 5.1 ships.

Comment 5 RHEL Program Management 2007-10-16 03:45:42 UTC

This request was evaluated by Red Hat Product Management for inclusion in a Red
Hat Enterprise Linux maintenance release.  Product Management has requested
further review of this request by Red Hat Engineering, for potential
inclusion in a Red Hat Enterprise Linux Update release for currently deployed
products.  This request is not yet committed for inclusion in an Update
release.

Comment 9 errata-xmlrpc 2008-05-21 15:22:52 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2008-0313.html