Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24

Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2008-01-25T19:56:20Z

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm too lazy to want to do my own initrd. I just use the prepackaged ones
> and rely on the fact that my private kernel will refuse to load modules
> that aren't meant for it anyway.
>

initrds generally aren't prepackaged, but generated on install (at least
with Fedora). You can regenerate them with "mkinitrd -f
/boot/initrd-2.6.24.img 2.6.24". Also, I find that "make
modules_install install" does it automatically from a kernel build.

J