Re: Hardwired drivers are going away?

Oliver Xymoron
2002-01-14T22:19:14Z

On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>:
> > But it still leaves you with tristate - instead of yes/module/no it's
> > yes/yes, but don't put it on initramfs/no. However, dependencies become
> > simpler - all you need is "I want this, that and that on initramfs" and
> > the rest can be found by depmod (i.e. configurator doesn't have to deal
> > with "FOO goes on initramfs (== old Y), so BAR and BAZ must go there
> > (== can't be M)").
>
> Actually I think we may no longer be in tristate-land. Instead, some
> devices have the property "This belongs in initramfs if it's configured
> at all" -- specifically, drivers for potential boot devices. Everything
> else can dynamic-load after boot time.

The knowledge of what's required to boot can and should be moved out of
the kernel to distro land. 'make install' should call the distro's install
script that sez /boot and /lib are on ext3 on /dev/sd?, ergo I need to
include the ext3 and relevant SCSI modules.

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