Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25T21:58:25Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Jon Masters wrote:
>
>> 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)
>>
>
> No. I really am not. My /etc/grub.conf looks like this:
>
> title Linux
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
> initrd /initrd-2.6.23.14-107.fc8.img
>
> ie I literally run the fedora initrd.
>
> I switch kernels, not initrd's. I don't even want to know if the initrd
> contains some distro-specific setup...

The distro mkinird can reconstruct it containing your freshly built
modules (if any) and any other distro goo which needs to go in there.
/initrd-2.6.23.14-107.fc8.img doesn't come out of an rpm; its built by
an installer script when you install the kernel, and you can run the
same script on your kernels.

Does you use "make modules_install install" when you build the kernel?
It just does the right thing for me under F8, including rebuilding
initrd and updating grub.conf.

J