Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24

Jon Masters
2008-01-25T21:21:18Z

On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 11:56 -0800, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
> 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.

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)
that certain things are always modular. I just mailed the maintainer,
suggesting we screen against the one of the Modules.* files (perhaps
Modules.order might become a good candidate in due course...).

Jon.