From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.6-pre1-xfs-2 i686) Description of problem: The command line options to mkinitrd are a mix of "value=<something>" and "value <something>", the former with "=", the latter using space as delimiter. The man page claims that "--preload=<module>", while mkinitrd --help claims "--preload <module>". The latter is correct, and use of "--preload=<something>" fails. How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Use mkinitrd, and specify a module with --preload=modulename 2. Try again, but use --preload modulename. 3. Only the latter will work. 4. View man page, and view mkinitrd --help...they differ. Actual Results: --preload=modulename fails. --preload modulename works. Expected Results: The man page should not disagree with mkinitrd. Although the format with space as token delimiter is correct for --preload, the version with "=" is correct for --with. Both versions should have a consistent syntax with either both using space as delimiter, or both using "=" as delimiter, but not a mix. Additional info:
fixed in 3.3