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From"H. Peter Anvin" <>
SubjectRe: Query about initramfs and modules
Date15 Jan 2002 18:09:04 -0800
Followup to:  <15428.47094.435181.278715@irving.iisd.sra.com>
By author:    David Garfield <garfield@irving.iisd.sra.com>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel
>
> Hearing all this talk about initramfs and eliminating hardwired
> drivers, it occurs to me to ask:
> 
> Can/will the initramfs mechanism be made to implicitly load into the
> kernel the modules (or some of the modules) in the image?
> 

No.  The bulk of the work of module loading is the job for insmod.

	-hpa
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