The patch titled
kexec: fix references to init in documentation for kexec
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
kexec-fix-references-to-init-in-documentation-for-kexe.patch
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Subject: kexec: fix references to init in documentation for kexec
From: Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
I've noticed that the boot options are not correct for in the documentation
for kdump. The "init" keyword is not necessary, and causes a kernel panic
when booting with an initrd on Fedora 5.
[horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx: put original comment with the latest version of the patch]
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzeelter <judith@xxxxxxxx>
Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 8 ++++----
1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
diff -puN Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt~kexec-fix-references-to-init-in-documentation-for-kexe Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt~kexec-fix-references-to-init-in-documentation-for-kexe
+++ a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -311,10 +311,10 @@ Following are the arch specific command
loading dump-capture kernel.
For i386, x86_64 and ia64:
- "init 1 irqpoll maxcpus=1"
+ "1 irqpoll maxcpus=1"
For ppc64:
- "init 1 maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib"
+ "1 maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib"
Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel:
@@ -332,8 +332,8 @@ Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel
* You must specify <root-dev> in the format corresponding to the root
device name in the output of mount command.
-* "init 1" boots the dump-capture kernel into single-user mode without
- networking. If you want networking, use "init 3."
+* Boot parameter "1" boots the dump-capture kernel into single-user
+ mode without networking. If you want networking, use "3".
* We generally don' have to bring up a SMP kernel just to capture the
dump. Hence generally it is useful either to build a UP dump-capture
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx are
origin.patch
git-ia64.patch
kexec-fix-references-to-init-in-documentation-for-kexe.patch
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