[RFC] missing net drivers in 8.04+ initrd...

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 04.08.2008, 17:10 +0100 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:41:07PM +0100, Daniel J Blueman wrote:
> > There are some key network card drivers not included in the initrd
> > shipped on the Ubuntu 8.04 (and later) ISO images; this prevents
> > NFS-root booting the liveCD (either unpacked or serving the squashfs
> > file from the ISO), and needs extra (unhelpful) steps for NFS-root
> > booting after installation.
> > 
> > Most useful drivers are already there, but in the last year or so
> > we've seen others become available and this default list hasn't been
> > updated accordingly. Above this, there are drivers for 10-gig net
> > cards and some other hardware (eg older Sun SPARC systems) which will
> > be almost never used in practise (eql, s2io, myri10g, sunhme,
> > sungem_phy).
> > 
> > I'm stuck for suggestion about exactly what package/mechanism to file
> > this against in LP for Intrepid Ibex, so would appreciate any
> > wisdom...
> 
> This list is currently hardcoded in the initramfs-tools package
> (/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hook-functions).  There is probably a case to be
> made for this being maintained in the kernel packages instead, though, so
> that it can be kept in sync with new drivers when they are added.
> 
> Thus, probably something to raise with the kernel team.

how about solving it dynamically by just pulling the listing of
available modules with a clever find/ls command syntax from
the /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/ dir instead of keeping it hardcoded ? 

ciao
	oli
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