Re: module 90kernel-modules-loaded

[Harald Hoyer <harald-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>]

Jeremy Katz wrote:
> On Friday, March 06 2009, Victor Lowther said:
>> On Fri, 2009-03-06 at 15:39 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
>>> Victor Lowther (victor.lowther-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org) said: 
>>>>>> http://git.surfsite.org/dracut.git
>>>>>> git://surfsite.org/pub/git/dracut.git
>>>>> Wasn't the entire point to make the initramfs generic?
>>>> No, to make the initramfs generator generic. A subtle but important
>>>> distinction.
>>> Nope. The plan was (quoting earlier mails to the list, from the
>>> creators...):
>>>
>>> ...
>>> [I]nstead of scripts hard-coded to do various things, we depend on
>>> udev to create device nodes for us and then when we have the
>>> rootfs's device node, we mount and carry on
>> We do this just fine.  Udev is the engine that drives everything in a
>> dracut-generated initramfs -- the additional scripts are there in the
>> initramfs to handle things that udev does not handle gracefully. If you
>> see some functionality currently handles in a script that udev could
>> handle better, please implement it.
> 
> The problem is the direction seems to be "hm, udev can't do this, guess
> we'll make a hook" rather than "fix udev and the underlying tools".
> Yes, it means it's harder.  And yes it means that distros have to get
> updates for everything to work.  But otherwise, we remain in the past
> with piles of scripts doing most things.
>

Problems so far:
	- dmraid (raid assembly)
	- device mapper handled /dev/ symlinks
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