Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24 | From | Jon Masters <> | Date | Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:20:27 -0500 |
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On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 11:56 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote: > 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.
Right. I assumed that Linus was calling mkinitrd but was being bitten by one of the occasional assumptions (I believe we make in that script) that certain things are always modular. I just mailed the maintainer, suggesting we screen against the one of the Modules.* files (perhaps Modules.order might become a good candidate in due course...).
Jon.
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