On Mon, Dec 09, 2013 at 11:31:30PM -0500, Zhi Zou wrote:
[..]
> > I think I'd like to support what dracut supports
(unless it's kdump
> > specific stuff). So my idea is:
> >
> > 1. Try to fix it in dracut. Because this is not kdump only issue.
> > 2. If we can't fix it in dracut, we can always encourage user to specify
> > 'dracut_args --install /etc/hosts' in /etc/kdump.conf, when they
want
> > to use a static hostname.
> >
>
That is right! fixing it in dracut is better.
I don't think we need to include /etc/hosts. There should be
tools/utitlities in dracut to dns resolve the name of host.
Agreed, this should if fixed in dracut (if it is an issue at all).
Thanks
Vivek