[kexec-tools] mkdumprd manpage cleanup manpage

Dave Young yangrr at fedoraproject.org
Wed Jun 6 08:32:54 UTC 2012


commit 12a1b3061e12e5a6182465a2a16ca032c87caa2a
Author: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
Date:   Wed Jun 6 16:24:37 2012 +0800

    mkdumprd manpage cleanup manpage
    
    All these options are not valid for current mkdumprd. So remove them.
    Leave a minimal mkdumprd.8
    
    Signed-off-by: Dave Young <dyoung at redhat.com>
    Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at redhat.com>

 mkdumprd.8 |   83 +++++------------------------------------------------------
 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 76 deletions(-)
---
diff --git a/mkdumprd.8 b/mkdumprd.8
index 5c7f9a9..7a7d2b9 100644
--- a/mkdumprd.8
+++ b/mkdumprd.8
@@ -2,13 +2,7 @@
 .SH NAME
 mkdumprd \- creates initial ramdisk images for kdump crash recovery 
 .SH SYNOPSIS
-\fBmkdumprd\fR [--version] [-v] [-f]
-         [--preload=\fImodule\fR] [--omit-scsi-modules] 
-         [--omit-raid-modules] [--omit-lvm-modules] 
-         [--image-version]
-         [--fstab=\fIfstab\fR] [--nocompress]
-         [--builtin=\fImodule\fR]
-         \fIimage\fR \fIkernel-version\fR
+\fBmkdumprd\fR [OPTION]
 
 .SH DESCRIPTION
 \fBmkdumprd\fR creates an initial ram file system for use in conjunction with
@@ -16,17 +10,13 @@ the booting of a kernel within the kdump framework for crash recovery.
 \fBmkdumprds\fR purpose is to create an initial ram filesystem capable of copying
 the crashed systems vmcore image to a location specified in \fI/etc/kdump.conf 
 
-Any module options specified in \fI/etc/modprobe.conf\fR are passed
-to the modules as they are loaded by the initial ramdisk.
-
 \fBmkdumprd\fR interrogates the running system to understand what modules need to
 be loaded in the initramfs (based on configuration retrieved from
 \fI/etc/kdump.conf)\fR
 
-\fBmkdumprd\fR was originally derived from the \fBmkinitrd\fR utility (hence
-the similarity in option sets), however mkdumprds purpose and mission is
-significantly different than that of \fBmkinitrd\fR.  As such, while most of the
-options still exist, and may work, they are largely historic remnants.
+\fBmkdumprd\fR add a new \fBdracut\fR module 99kdumpbase and use \fBdracut\fR
+utility to generate the initramfs.
+
 \fBmkdumprd\fR was not intended for casual use outside of the service
 initialization script for the kdump utility, and should not be run manually.  If
 you require a custom kdump initramfs image, it is suggested that you use the
@@ -36,67 +26,8 @@ repack the image.
 
 .SH OPTIONS
 .TP
-\fB-\-builtin=\fR\fImodule\fR
-Act as if \fImodule\fR is built into the kernel being used. \fBmkdumprd\fR
-will not look for this module, and will not emit an error if it does not
-exist. This option may be used multiple times.
-
-.TP
-\fB-f\fR
-Allows \fBmkdumprd\fR to overwrite an existing image file.
-
-.TP
-\fB-\-fstab=\fR\fIfstab\fR
-Use \fIfstab\fR to automatically determine what type of filesystem the
-root device is on. Normally, \fB/etc/fstab\fR is used.
-
-.TP
-\fB-\-image-version
-The kernel version number is appended to the initrd image path before the image
-is created.
-
-.TP
-\fB-\-nocompress
-Normally the created initrd image is compressed with \fBgzip\fR. If this
-option is specified, the compression is skipped.
-
-.TP
-\fB-\-omit-lvm-modules 
-Do not load any lvm modules, even if /etc/fstab expects them.
-
-.TP
-\fB-\-omit-raid-modules 
-Do not load any raid modules, even if /etc/fstab and /etc/raidtab expect them.
-
-.TP
-\fB-\-omit-scsi-modules 
-Do not load any scsi modules, including 'scsi_mod' and 'sd_mod'
-modules, even if they are present.
-
-.TP
-\fB-\-preload=\fR\fImodule\fR
-Load the module \fImodule\fR in the initial ramdisk image. The module gets
-loaded before any SCSI modules which are specified in \fI/etc/modprobe.conf\fR.
-This option may be used as many times as necessary.
-
-.TP
-\fB-v\fR
-Prints out verbose information while creating the image (normally
-the \fBmkdumprd\fR runs silently). 
-
-.TP
-\fB-\-version\fR
-Prints the version of \fBmkdumprd\fR that's being used and then exits.
-
-.SH FILES
-.PD 0
-
-.TP 20
-\fI/etc/modprobe.conf\fR
-Specifies modules to be loaded and module options to be used.
+All options here are passed to dracut directly, please refer \fBdracut\fR docs
+for the info.
 
-.PD
 .SH "SEE ALSO"
-.BR fstab (5),
-.BR insmod (1)
-.BR mkinitrd (8)
+.BR dracut (8),


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