[looking for magic bytes on floppy before dumping oops]
> I think this a quite a good idea which could be applied particularly to
> RAW dump (because some people who want FAT prefer not to bother how to
> "cook" the diskette). But this could be included as a compile-time option,
> IMO.
IMHO, if people are submitting bug reports using ksymoops then
they show know how to read raw data off a floppy. ksymoops could
be enhanced to read the oops data off a floppy. Your patch could
write the magic bytes before the oops so that the floppy does not
have to be re-intialized. I don't see the value in writing to a
FAT filesystem. Simple is good.
Neil
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