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

[Oliver Grawert]

hi,
Am Montag, den 04.08.2008, 18:02 +0100 schrieb Matt Zimmerman:
> > > 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 ? 
> 
> Because I don't think we want *every* network driver, just a sensible
> subset.
> 
> I don't expect much netbooting over appletalk or HAM radio, for example.
> It's OK to require some extra initramfs configuration for such weird cases,
> but the default should be to include classes of device commonly used for
> netbooting (like Ethernet).
even then i think mantaining a blacklist to exclude modules from the set
and keeping the rest dynamic will be less effort and less error
prone ... we might end up with one or the other module we dont want in
the initramfs that way if the blacklist is badly maintained but newly
added pci drivers will at least automatically be available.

ciao
	oli
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