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Re: Bug#699367: an issue with crash(8) perhaps?



On 2013-02-21 14:10, Ben Hutchings wrote:
The squeeze kernel is unfortunately missing support for a lot of
current hardware (notably graphics but also some networking chips) so
many people are running later kernel versions.  I would love to fix
some of these but I have my hands full and I can rarely test
backported drivers myself.  So I would expect quite a lot of people
to be running Linux 3.2 from wheezy or squeeze-backports, or a custom
3.x kernel (which doesn't require a huge amount of technical
sophistication).

I don't know how many people use 'crash'; you're in a better position
to answer that.

I think that rather more than one or two users will be affected by
this, and if there is a simple fix then it is fair to expect that
you will save them the trouble.

There's also the fact that until wheezy, no standard Debian kernel had automatic support for crash dumps either. Now that it's there, both in wheezy and squeeze-backports, there's a larger potential for its use.

Previously one had to compile a custom kernel, now a simply 'apt-get' is needed.

Even in wheezy, dumps don't Just Work(tm) out of the box: see 700418.


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