[PATCH] doc: refer to kdump in oops-tracing.txt

Kdump has been merged and supported on several architectures.  It is better
to encourage to use kdump rather than non standard kernel crash dump
patches.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <mita@miraclelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

diff --git a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
index 05960f8a748e6169822b1954530150502135cde0..2503404ae5c26bce481d56daecb008588e86102e 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt
@@ -41,11 +41,9 @@ the disk is not available then you have three options :-
     run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there
     using your favourite communication program.  Minicom works well.
 
-(3) Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches.  These save
-    data to a floppy disk or video rom or a swap partition.  None of
-    these are standard kernel patches so you have to find and apply
-    them yourself.  Search kernel archives for kmsgdump, lkcd and
-    oops+smram.
+(3) Use Kdump (see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt),
+    extract the kernel ring buffer from old memory with using dmesg
+    gdbmacro in Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt.
 
 
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