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authoraszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>2013-10-23 16:42:34 +0200
committeraszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>2013-10-23 17:16:17 +0200
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nixos-generate-config: Add --show-hardware-config.
So, we get the old behaviour of nixos-hardware-scane if we run the
following command:

nixos-generate-config --no-filesystems --show-hardware-config

This allows to use scripts in order to fetch NixOS specific hardware
information, without the need to duplicate code elsewhere.

Signed-off-by: aszlig <aszlig@redmoonstudios.org>
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-rw-r--r--nixos/doc/manual/man-nixos-generate-config.xml9
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diff --git a/nixos/doc/manual/man-nixos-generate-config.xml b/nixos/doc/manual/man-nixos-generate-config.xml
index 0771753f6893..e4fba4a40a97 100644
--- a/nixos/doc/manual/man-nixos-generate-config.xml
+++ b/nixos/doc/manual/man-nixos-generate-config.xml
@@ -118,6 +118,15 @@
     </listitem>
   </varlistentry>
 
+  <varlistentry>
+    <term><option>--show-hardware-config</option></term>
+    <listitem>
+      <para>Don't generate <filename>configuration.nix</filename> or
+      <filename>hardware-configuration.nix</filename> and print the
+      hardware configuration to stdout only.</para>
+    </listitem>
+  </varlistentry>
+
 </variablelist>
 
 </refsection>