Re: regression: 9a56493f6942 "uts: Use generic ns_common::count" broke makedumpfile 1.6.7

From: Mike Galbraith
Date: Wed Dec 16 2020 - 09:52:20 EST


On Wed, 2020-12-16 at 15:31 +0100, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Wed, 2020-12-16 at 17:23 +0300, Kirill Tkhai wrote:
> >
> > Does this regression only cause that one error message "check_release: Can't get the kernel version"
> > is printed instead of another: "The kernel version is not supported."?
>
> The thing does indeed mutter about the kernel version, with or without
> 9a56493f6942 reverted, but it work despite the muttering with
> 9a56493f6942 reverted.

makedumpfile 1.6.7 source only claims to work up to linux-5.4.8, but
actually does work all the way up until 9a56493f6942.

If the answer here is that v1,6,7 has reached EOL, that's fine, I'll
just carry a revert until I can cobble together an updated package.

-Mike