From: Horms Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2007 04:40:48 +0000 (-0800) Subject: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update: kexec-tools update X-Git-Tag: v2.6.20-rc6~31 X-Git-Url: https://err.no/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=ea112bd5493d44967b3dc44fd078be517272b044;p=linux-2.6 [PATCH] Kdump documentation update: kexec-tools update Mohan Kumar suggested making kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz a link to the latest version. I have done this and this patch updates the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman Cc: Vivek Goyal Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt index 5af6676a88..2e5b3176de 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -61,7 +61,12 @@ Install kexec-tools 2) Download the kexec-tools user-space package from the following URL: -http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-testing-20061214.tar.gz +http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz + +This is a symlink to the latest version, which at the time of writing is +20061214, the only release of kexec-tools-testing so far. As other versions +are made released, the older onese will remain available at +http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/ Note: Latest kexec-tools-testing git tree is available at @@ -71,11 +76,11 @@ http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools-testing.git;a=su 3) Unpack the tarball with the tar command, as follows: - tar xvpzf kexec-tools-testing-20061214.tar.gz + tar xvpzf kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz -4) Change to the kexec-tools-1.101 directory, as follows: +4) Change to the kexec-tools directory, as follows: - cd kexec-tools-testing-20061214 + cd kexec-tools-testing-VERSION 5) Configure the package, as follows: