Re: 2.2.X patch query (with initial PATCH against 2.2.17)

2000-11-21 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Horst. >>> Also, part of my plan was to check that the disk is >>> already in this non-standard format, and refuse to >>> dump if not. This would ensure that doing so didn't >>> overwrite somebody's master boot disk by accident, as >>> such disks will not normally be in this non-standard

Re: 2.2.X patch query (with initial PATCH against 2.2.17)

2000-10-31 Thread Andreas Dilger
Dr. Horst H. von Brand writes: > Dominik Kubla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:38:56PM +, Riley Williams wrote: > > ... > > > Also, part of my plan was to check that the disk is already in this > > > non-standard format, and refuse to dump if not. This would ensure tha

Re: 2.2.X patch query (with initial PATCH against 2.2.17)

2000-10-31 Thread Horst von Brand
Dominik Kubla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 01:38:56PM +, Riley Williams wrote: > ... > > Also, part of my plan was to check that the disk is already in this > > non-standard format, and refuse to dump if not. This would ensure that > > doing so didn't overwrite somebody'

Re: 2.2.X patch query (with initial PATCH against 2.2.17)

2000-10-31 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Horst. >> Before I go any further with this, I would like to ask a few >> questions relating to it: >> 1. Is there any likelihood of this making it into the official >>kernel, or am I just wasting my time? > Depends, I'd say... perhaps after a long shakeout and much use. Fair enoug

Re: 2.2.X patch query

2000-10-30 Thread Horst von Brand
Riley Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [...] > Before I go any further with this, I would like to ask a few questions > relating to it: > > 1. Is there any likelihood of this making it into the official > kernel, or am I just wasting my time? Depends, I'd say... perhaps after a long sha

Re: 2.2.X patch query

2000-10-30 Thread Andreas Dilger
Riley Williams writes: > I'm NOT planning on making panics automatically dump to floppy. What I > was looking at instead was to add a SysRq option to dump the current > syslog buffer to floppy. This would be available at any time, but ONLY > if the kernel has SYSRQ support compiled in, and has add

2.2.X patch query

2000-10-30 Thread Riley Williams
Hi Alan. You may remember a while back a suggestion that panic messages be dumped to floppy so they can be read afterwards. I've been looking into this idea for a while, in between working on my plans to get married, and looking for a job somewhere, and I think I have the bones of it laid out no