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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jon Masters <jonathan@jonmasters.org>,
	Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Subject: Re: changeset: Make forced module loading optional
Date: Mon, 5 May 2008 16:57:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080505165736.5b31dc9f@core> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LNX.1.10.0805051755460.11757@fbirervta.pbzchgretzou.qr>

> trash grub in the MBR. No thanks, too much clouds. Also, it can't 
> possibly know how to call mkinitrd, because every distro has its own 
> stupid required flags (SUSE: requires none and tries to be smart, 

Of course it can - make install picks up distribution provided bits
beyond what is within the kernel scripting, and you can also use your own
scripts so make install does what you specifically want yourself.

Alan

  reply	other threads:[~2008-05-05 16:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-05-05  4:55 changeset: Make forced module loading optional Rusty Russell
2008-05-05  5:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05  5:35   ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-05 17:07     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 18:42       ` Rusty Russell
2008-05-05 19:47         ` David Miller
2008-05-05  6:43   ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-05 14:37     ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 14:50       ` Jeff Garzik
2008-05-05 15:01         ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 15:08           ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 15:32     ` Dave Jones
2008-05-05 15:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2008-05-05 16:01       ` Jan Engelhardt
2008-05-05 15:57         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2008-05-05  6:35 ` Jan Engelhardt

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