From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Erik van Konijnenburg Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 21:48:35 +0000 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] yaird, a mkinitrd based on hotplug concepts Message-Id: <20050222224835.C2736@banaan.localdomain> List-Id: References: <20050217210620.A20645@banaan.localdomain> In-Reply-To: <20050217210620.A20645@banaan.localdomain> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Feb 22, 2005 at 06:48:29PM +0100, Harald Hoyer wrote: > Erik van Konijnenburg wrote: > > - More serious may be the use of PROGRAM="..." in udev.rules; this again > > sucks in executables and shell scripts that make it difficult to find > > out what should go on the image. It may be possible to write a > > separate rules file for use on initrd that avoids the PROGRAM="..."; > > it would help to make the rule format richer, so that more cases can > > be handled without resorting to PROGRAM="...". > > > > Another problem arises, if you edit one config file for the udev/hotplug/init > process, all kernels initrd have to be recreated, unless we have a hotplug > replay mechanism after root is mounted. Though any modprobe.conf scripts which > are not in initrd, will not be executed. That, plus I want a back-out option ... It seems the image depends on a combination of kernel, modprobe.conf (for module options) and the hotplug config files; almost like we need a makefile to do the mkinitrd invocation. This is really too complicated for me to think about now, but it's something to consider if we want to offer the sysadm a robust environment. Regards, Erik ------------------------------------------------------- SF email is sponsored by - The IT Product Guide Read honest & candid reviews on hundreds of IT Products from real users. Discover which products truly live up to the hype. Start reading now. http://ads.osdn.com/?ad_ide95&alloc_id396&op=click _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel