[Crash-utility] question on some command params

[Jun Koi]

On Tue, Sep 23, 2008 at 12:49 AM, Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com> wrote:
> Jun Koi wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I found below cmdline params having no documentation anywhere, so
>> could somebody explain their meaning?
>>
>> - memory_module
>> - no_modules
>> - no_ikconfig
>> - no_namelist_gzip
>> - no_kmem_cache
>> - kmem_cache_delay
>> - readnow
>> - buildinfo
>> - zero_excluded
>>
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> J
>
> They're all essentially debug flags for use on kernels/dumpfiles
> that for some reason or other would not initialize properly.
>
> memory_module: if /dev/mem or /dev/crash do not suffice you could
>  force-feed one or the other for live system analysys.

Another question: Why do we need the "memory_device" param if we
already had "memory_module"? Arent they the same thing? The naming
here is so confused to me.

Thanks,
J