Bug 142247
| Summary: | dmidecode and irqbalance lack man pages. | ||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 3 | Reporter: | Björn Augustsson <oggust> |
| Component: | kernel-utils | Assignee: | Alan Cox <alan> |
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | Brian Brock <bbrock> |
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |
| Priority: | medium | ||
| Version: | 3.0 | CC: | jdelvare, oggust |
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||
| Target Release: | --- | ||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||
| Last Closed: | 2007-10-19 19:11:55 UTC | Type: | --- |
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- |
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |
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| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |
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(I am the maintainer of dmidecode.) dmidecode has a man page since version 2.4. Command-line interface was not documented yet, because it was very limited, intended for debugging only and subject to changes. dmidecode supports --help and --version since version 2.6 (released two days ago). Command-line interface is fully documented there. RHEL 3 update 5 (maybe earlier, haven't checked) has a man page for irqbalance. Still nothing for dmidecode though. dmidecode in version 2.2 in kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.12. RFE to 2.6 ? see also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=158990 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=162287 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=154571 (RHEL4) This bug is filed against RHEL 3, which is in maintenance phase. During the maintenance phase, only security errata and select mission critical bug fixes will be released for enterprise products. Since this bug does not meet that criteria, it is now being closed. For more information of the RHEL errata support policy, please visit: http://www.redhat.com/security/updates/errata/ If you feel this bug is indeed mission critical, please contact your support representative. You may be asked to provide detailed information on how this bug is affecting you. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4.3) Gecko/20040924 Description of problem: There are no man pages nor documentation in /usr/share/doc for these binaries. dmidecode also does not take either --version nor --help on the command line, but appears to support some kind of arguments. (it says stuff along the lines of "--help: No such file or directory". irqbalance scarily starts running with the --help argument and hangs around. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): kernel-utils-2.4-8.37.6 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. man dmidecode 2. man irqbalance 3. Actual Results: nothing Expected Results: enlightenment. Additional info: The nahant beta has a man page for irqbalance. But not for dmidecode.