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DateFri, 25 Jan 2008 11:56:03 -0800
FromJeremy Fitzhardinge <>
SubjectRe: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24
Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm too lazy to want to do my own initrd. I just use the prepackaged ones 
> and rely on the fact that my private kernel will refuse to load modules 
> that aren't meant for it anyway.> 

initrds generally aren't prepackaged, but generated on install (at least 
with Fedora).  You can regenerate them with "mkinitrd -f 
/boot/initrd-2.6.24.img 2.6.24".  Also, I find that "make 
modules_install install" does it automatically from a kernel build.

    J


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