Some updates to the README files

diff --git a/README b/README
index 0497a659e323607bd14d1f6a2067e571db3e5bc0..ab7cba966e8dd16048668e744b2d1987ef067572 100644 (file)
--- a/README
+++ b/README
@@ -21,8 +21,10 @@ as hooks are guaranteed to be the path to slow-down.
 
 Most of the initrd generation functionality in dracut is provided by a bunch
 of generator modules that are sourced by the main dracut script to install
-specific functionality into the initrd.  They live in the modules.d subdirectory,
-and use functionality provided by dracut-functions to do their work.
+specific functionality into the initrd.  They live in the modules.d 
+subdirectory, and use functionality provided by dracut-functions to do their 
+work.
+
 Some general rules for writing modules:
  * Use one of the inst family of functions to actually install files
    on to the initrd.  They handle mangling the pathnames and (for binaries,
@@ -59,13 +61,13 @@ the documentation, git access, etc.
 
 Git Repository:
 http://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/
-git://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/dracut
+git://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/dracut/dracut
 
 Trac Instance:
 http://apps.sourceforge.net/trac/dracut/ 
 
 The git tree can be found at
-git://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/dracut  for now.  See the TODO
+git://dracut.git.sourceforge.net/gitroot/dracut/dracut for now.  See the TODO
 file for things which still need to be done and HACKING for some
 instructions on how to get started.  There is also a mailing list that
 is being used for the discussion -- initramfs@vger.kernel.org.  It is

diff --git a/README.generic b/README.generic
index f393e9fe85d4226a30b0826441b57d4a57e760fb..780e0bdc2139e5eca82e8da5f43748324e818589 100644 (file)
--- a/README.generic
+++ b/README.generic
@@ -8,3 +8,6 @@ To build a generic initramfs, you have to install the following software package
  * mdadm
  * net-tools iproute
 
+Generic initramfs'es are huge (usually over 10 megs in size uncompressed), but
+should be able to automatically boot any bootable configuration with appropriate
+boot flags (root device, network configuration information, etc.)
\ No newline at end of file

diff --git a/README.modules b/README.modules
index 74bc74f01161970b0453577421b90a89d77906a7..516ca04e058227a90f3e58451a769d370cd895f3 100644 (file)
--- a/README.modules
+++ b/README.modules
@@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ check: Dracut calls this program to check and see if a module can be installed
        are present.  It should exit with a 0 if they are, and a 1 if they are
        not.
 
-       When called with -H, it should perform the same check that it would
+       When called with -h, it should perform the same check that it would
        without any options, and it should also check to see if the 
        functionality the module implements is being used on the host system.
        For example, if this module handles installing support for LUKS
@@ -43,9 +43,12 @@ check: Dracut calls this program to check and see if a module can be installed
        encrpted volumes are available and the host system has the root
        partition on an encrypted volume, 1 otherwise.
 
+       When called with -d, it should output a list of dracut modules
+       that it relies upon.  An example would be the nfs and iscsi modules,
+       which rely on the network module to detect and configure network
+       interfaces.
+
        Check may take additional options in the future.  
-       We will most likely grow a module dependency checking system in the
-       near future, and check will need to handle a -d option when we do.
 
 Any other files in the module will not be touched by dracut directly.