From: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
To: Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>
Cc: Kexec-ml <kexec@lists.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kexec: update manpage with explicit mention of clean kexec
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2023 15:57:11 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4f81d535-ff2c-fba3-8285-7e68bd6493bb@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230828074810.GY3523530@kernel.org>
On 28/08/23 1:18 pm, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 28, 2023 at 11:46:14AM +0530, Hari Bathini wrote:
>> Any comments on this, please..
>
> Hi Hari,
>
> Sorry, I had missed this.
No worries. Thanks for the response.
>
>> On 07/07/23 10:59 am, Hari Bathini wrote:
>>> While the manpage does mention about kexec boot with a clean shutdown,
>>> it is not explicit about it. Make it explicit.
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Hari Bathini <hbathini@linux.ibm.com>
>>> ---
>>> kexec/kexec.8 | 12 ++++++++++--
>>> 1 file changed, 10 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>>
>>> diff --git a/kexec/kexec.8 b/kexec/kexec.8
>>> index 3a344c5..87e4ab5 100644
>>> --- a/kexec/kexec.8
>>> +++ b/kexec/kexec.8
>>> @@ -95,8 +95,16 @@ then you would use the following command to load the kernel:
>>> .RB "\-\-append=" "root=/dev/hda1" "\ \-\-initrd=" /boot/initrd
>>> .RE
>>> .PP
>>> -After this kernel is loaded, it can be booted to at any time using the
>>> -command:
>>> +After this kernel is loaded, assuming your Linux distribution supports
>>> +kexec-based rebooting, it can be booted to, with a clean shutdown, using
>>> +the command:
>
> Perhaps user-space would be better than "your Linux distribution".
> But perhaps that is just kernel developer speak and makes less
> sense to others.
No strong inclination to putting it either way. Would leave it to you :)
- Hari
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Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2023-07-07 5:29 [PATCH] kexec: update manpage with explicit mention of clean kexec Hari Bathini
2023-08-28 6:16 ` Hari Bathini
2023-08-28 7:48 ` Simon Horman
2023-08-28 9:42 ` Baoquan He
2023-09-11 6:34 ` Hari Bathini
2023-09-20 11:41 ` Simon Horman
2023-09-20 12:01 ` Hari Bathini
2023-08-28 10:27 ` Hari Bathini [this message]
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