Bug 2148318 - dracut kernel-network-modules: allow specifying empty --hostonly-nics
Summary: dracut kernel-network-modules: allow specifying empty --hostonly-nics
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Status: VERIFIED
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Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8
Classification: Red Hat
Component: dracut
Version: 8.8
Hardware: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: rc
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Assignee: Pavel Valena
QA Contact: Frantisek Sumsal
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Blocks: 1958587
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Reported: 2022-11-25 01:36 UTC by Coiby
Modified: 2023-07-13 07:39 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

Fixed In Version: dracut-049-225.git20230614.el8
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Github dracutdevs dracut pull 1789 0 None Merged fix(kernel-network-modules): allow specifying empty --hostonly-nics 2022-12-01 11:13:19 UTC
Red Hat Issue Tracker RHELPLAN-140426 0 None None None 2022-11-25 01:42:10 UTC

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.
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