New feature for Fedora 16: new mkdumprd

[Vivek Goyal]

On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 06:35:05AM -0400, Josh Boyer wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 11:08 PM, Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 9:52 PM, Tomasz Torcz <tomek at pipebreaker.pl> wrote:
> >> On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 03:50:07PM +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> >>> > > Would any of you kindly help to review my proposed feature
> >>> > > for Fedora 16?
> >>> > >
> >>> > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/NewMkdumprd
> >>> >
> >>>   Feature proposal dealing was yesterday?
> >>
> >>  deadline, of course.
> >>
> >
> > Am I too late? I made the page before the deadline, just sent
> > it out a little late. :-/
> 
> The deadline is for FESCo to review it by, so yes you're a little late.
> 
> However, you can still do the work and get it into F16.  The only
> thing you won't get is some possible marketing as a feature.  You can
> still get it mentioned in the release notes though.

That's fine. This feature is not introducing any new functinality as
such. This is old kdump feature. Just that we are changing the way
we generate the initrd/initramfs for kdump kenrel. Thought it is a
better idea to use dracut to generate initramfs for kdump also and
dump "mkdumprd".

Thanks
Vivek