Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: Query about initramfs and modules | Date | 15 Jan 2002 18:09:04 -0800 |
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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.
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