Re: [PATCH v2 rdma-core 0/6] Common udev/systemd based module auto loading

[Benjamin Drung <benjamin.drung-EIkl63zCoXaH+58JC4qpiA@public.gmane.org>]

Am Dienstag, den 08.08.2017, 16:38 -0600 schrieb Jason Gunthorpe:
> On Fri, Aug 04, 2017 at 06:22:31PM +0200, Benjamin Drung wrote:
> 
> > By default, nothing from the infiniband directory is included. The
> > question is: What is the right thing to do? Should everything from
> > kernel/drivers/infiniband/hw be included in the initrd by default?
> 
> No, only modules that can be request_module'd from the initrd should
> be included in the initrd.
> 
> AFAIK only the two mellanox drivers do request module, so only those
> two or three modules (mlx4_ib, mlx4_en, mlx5_ib?) should be included.
> 
> That sounds like something that should be fixed in the initd package?
> Or should rdma-core be dropping some kind of hook in a .d directory?

Yes. I opened a bug report against initramfs-tools with a patch
attached: https://bugs.debian.org/871595

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