Bug 444824

Summary: not all mkdumprd options work
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 Reporter: Charlotte Richardson <charlotte.richardson>
Component: kexec-toolsAssignee: Neil Horman <nhorman>
Status: CLOSED ERRATA QA Contact: Red Hat Kernel QE team <kernel-qe>
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Version: 5.2CC: cward, mgahagan, qcai, tao
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Description Charlotte Richardson 2008-04-30 20:35:50 UTC 
Description of problem:
Two things:
1) /sbin/mkdumprd does not actually have --with-module, which presumably would
do what the extra_modules line in /etc/kdump.conf does. The only way to get
extra modules loaded by the kdump kernel is via /etc/kdump.conf.
2) /etc/kdump.conf does not expose an interface to /sbin/mkdumprd's --preload
<module> function, which would be extremely useful for us. It works fine if you
run /sbin/mkdumprd directly, and has the desired effect (the module loads before
the SCSI modules load).


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
RHEL5.2 kernel build 89.


How reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
Try /sbin/mkdumprd --with-module and --preload.
  
Actual results:
--with-module is not available. --preload works, but not from /etc/kdump.conf.


Expected results:
Would be really useful if both of these worked in both places.


Additional info:
Comment 1 Neil Horman 2008-05-09 14:38:41 UTC 
*** Bug 445851 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Comment 3 Kevin Krafthefer 2008-05-22 16:09:29 UTC 
This RFE has been reviewed during the RHEL RFE review
with Red Hat product management. This request has been *tentatively* approved
for inclusion
in the next update. This decision is not final and still pends further
technical review and scoping by Red Hat development engineering.
Comment 4 Neil Horman 2008-05-23 18:33:38 UTC 
I've removed the --with-module option in 1.102pre-22.el5.  Note that the
extra_mods option in /etc/kdump.conf should provide you with the additional
functionality that --preload would otherwise provide.
Comment 8 errata-xmlrpc 2009-01-20 21:00:26 UTC 
An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on therefore solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2009-0105.html