[PATCH] Add a help message into man page of makedumpfile for -b option.

Dave Young dyoung at redhat.com
Thu May 30 23:22:02 EDT 2013


On 05/31/2013 10:26 AM, Dave Young wrote:
> Add Ken'ichi Ohmichi to cc list and remove redhat list from cc
> 
> On 05/30/2013 04:44 PM, Jingbai Ma wrote:
>> This is a minor change that only adds a help message to -b option in makedumpfile man page.
>> This message has been in Red Hat's makedumpfile source, they would like it in upstream also.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Jingbai Ma <jingbai.ma at hp.com>
>> ---
>>  makedumpfile.8 |    4 ++++
>>  1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/makedumpfile.8 b/makedumpfile.8
>> index cfd1270..1e844db 100644
>> --- a/makedumpfile.8
>> +++ b/makedumpfile.8
>> @@ -534,6 +534,10 @@ order from left to right.  \fIVMCORE\fRs are assembled into a single
>>  Print debugging message.
>>  
>>  .TP
>> +\fB-b <order>\fR
>> +cache 2^order pages in ram when generating vmcore info before writing to output

Hi, Jingbai

A nitpick:
The first character should be capital 'C'

>> +
>> +.TP
>>  \fB\-h\fR
>>  Show help message and LZO/snappy support status (enabled/disabled).
>>  
>>
> 
> 


-- 
Thanks
Dave





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