From: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
To: linux-s390@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/5] zfcpdump: Add install script for zfcpdump
Date: Thu, 02 Aug 2018 10:00:24 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180802100024.GE5361@linux.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <fd6898dc-3016-fd1e-1e4c-31cec7b21a7c@redhat.com>
On Wed, Jul 25, 2018 at 01:36:15PM +0200, Philipp Rudo wrote:
> Since version 198 (Feb 2013) systemd contains kernel-install, a script
> managing kernel installs. This script allows execution of drop-in scripts
> for customization. Add such a drop-in script to s390-tools to handle the
> installation of zfcpdump kernels and simplify interactions between zfcpdump
> and zipl.
>
> The script supports two installation modes. One recommended by the
> BootLoaderSpecs [1] to /boot/<machine-id>/<kernel-version> directories and
> one directly to /boot. In the second case files are renamed during
> installation to <original-name>-<kernel-version> to guarantee unique names.
>
> Because the zfcpdump kernel is so special make the script stand-alone and
> prevent any other script from being executed (exit 77) when a zfcpdump is
> installed. Especially avoid functionality like creating an initrd (already
> provided by s390-tools) or creating a boot entry (the zfcpdump kernel
> should not be used for any other purpose than dumping).
>
> The script requires systemd >= 203.
>
> [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec/
>
> Signed-off-by: Philipp Rudo <prudo@linux.ibm.com>
> ---
> .gitignore | 1 +
> common.mak | 3 +-
> zfcpdump/10-zfcpdump.install.in | 114 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> zfcpdump/Makefile | 16 ++++--
> 4 files changed, 130 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> create mode 100755 zfcpdump/10-zfcpdump.install.in
Looks good to me :)
Reviewed-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.ibm.com>
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