Re: crash binary for latest unreleased kernel

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Fri Jan 26 2018 - 23:39:00 EST


On 01/26/2018 08:32 PM, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Fri, 2018-01-26 at 12:52 -0800, Joe Smith wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am doing development on the latest unreleased kernel on a system
>> running ubuntu 16.04. I can not get crash dump to be saved or use
>> crash on the live system. I have tried compiling crash on the system.
>>
>> What is the trick to do development on the latest kernel using a
>> system installed with old release.
>
> You have to either be motivated enough to fix crash and friends up as
> they get busted, or lazy enough to wait for maintainers to do so for
> you.  I've done a bit of both, but the later is my favorite :)

:)

Is it mostly structure updates or is it partly randomized layout of
structs? or something totally different?

thanks,
--
~Randy