Bug 2148318

Summary:	dracut kernel-network-modules: allow specifying empty --hostonly-nics
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8	Reporter:	Coiby <coxu>
Component:	dracut	Assignee:	Pavel Valena <pvalena>
Status:	VERIFIED ---	QA Contact:	Frantisek Sumsal <fsumsal>
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Version:	8.8	CC:	dtardon, fsumsal, pvalena
Target Milestone:	rc	Keywords:	Improvement, Triaged
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Bug Blocks:	1958587

Description Coiby 2022-11-25 01:36:05 UTC

Description of problem:

dracut kdump module need to only install the needed network drivers to save memory (bz1958587) and it depends on dracut commit ab6f5733 ("fix(kernel-network-modules): allow specifying empty --hostonly-nics"). Please backport this patch to RHEL8 dracut. Thanks!

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Comment 3 Coiby 2023-06-06 07:57:45 UTC

Hi Pavel,

Do you plan to backport the patch as mentioned in the bug description? I set DTM=16 for bz2148318 which depends on this bug and I wonder if it's doable.

Comment 4 Pavel Valena 2023-06-13 11:55:35 UTC

Hi Colby,

sure, I'll prepare this this week (ideally today).

Comment 5 Pavel Valena 2023-06-13 16:34:33 UTC

I've created a PR: https://github.com/redhat-plumbers/dracut-rhel8/pull/26

Scratch-build(for testing): https://kojihub.stream.rdu2.redhat.com/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2336369

Comment 6 Coiby 2023-06-15 05:09:38 UTC

(In reply to Pavel Valena from comment #5)
> I've created a PR: https://github.com/redhat-plumbers/dracut-rhel8/pull/26
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> Scratch-build(for testing):
> https://kojihub.stream.rdu2.redhat.com/koji/taskinfo?taskID=2336369

Thanks!

Comment 8 Pavel Valena 2023-06-23 14:30:34 UTC

Infrastructure issues.