> Hi,
> 
> Please see attachment for the tarball of new tree. The updated version
> has the following improvments,
> 
> - simplify maintenance
> 
> - fix several bugs
> 
> - better automation
> 
> - extend support on Debian and Fedora
> 
> - merge Poornima Nayak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 's latest patch
> 
> - other changes

Thanks Cai and Poornima,

All these changes has been merged. I would request you to take the first
call if somebody faces some problem on this. Thanks once again for this
huge work that you did.

--Subrata

> 
> The new version simplifies code layout, and all tools under lib/
> directory are standalone and reusable, all configurable variables are
> under the file runkdump.conf. There are also included sample
> configuration files for different distros and test components. In
> addition, it avoided code duplication by merging RHEL and SLES specified
> code in lkdtm module together, and add a checking before hand. The
> working flow in main script has also been tidied up. verify and
> verify_dump have been unified. unused file "summary" has been deleted.
> 
> In previous version,
> * The part of comparing kernel version in setup will not work proper 
>   if the kernel grows to something like 2.7.1 or 2.8.1.
> * verify_dump will not able to find previous vmcore if vmcore creation
>   and vmcore verfication happen at different hours.
> * Other random bugs because of code complexity.
> 
> In the new version, once you define everything in a config file, it will
> run in an automatically fashion on some of systems, if there is proper
> tools installed.
> 
> The code has been rewritten in POSIX shell syntax, and made more
> portable, and attempted to remove hard-coded stuff as much as
> possible. It has been tested fairly on RHEL5.1, SLES10sp1, Debian
> unstable, and Fedora 8. If needed I can send you result logs. Sachin
> has done a quick test on PPC64 machine running RHEL5.1 and the script
> run fine. Poornima has done some code review.
> 
> Poornima's patch has been merged,
> 1. Crashkerenl reservation check is modified to support any craskernel
> value.
> 2. A message before system reboots
> 3. Added one more line to 'status' if dump verification passed.
> 4. Modified 'README' file
> 5. If kdump start fails for invalid arguments in kdump.conf is fixed
> 6. Replaced MAKE_OPTS with MAKE_OPTIONS.
> 7. Removed some unwanted statements.
> 
> Other changes included that all tests descriptions have been documented
> in doc/ALL_TEST.txt. KNLD (dump over scp with link delay) test case has
> been merged into KNSCP (dump over scp). Once LINK_DELAY has been defined
> somewhere in configuration file, all test cases (KNSCP and KNNFS)
> dumping to a network destination will take advantage of it. If
> LINK_DELAY is not defined or equals to 0, KNSCP and KNNFS will just the
> same as in previous version.
> 
>  Cai Qian
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