[PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-<version> instead of initrd-<version> (#519185)
Jon Masters
jcm at redhat.com
Fri Sep 4 16:19:02 UTC 2009
On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 17:27 +0200, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 11:14:43AM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:53:19AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> >
> > > The problem I have is that some folks want to include additional drivers
> > > into their initrd.
> >
> > examples please.
>
> Out-of-tree modules: pvscsi, vmxnet (for VMWare). Generally
> stuff frowned-upon. BTW, I believe changing Plymouth theme require
> regeneration of initrd.
Yeah. Most of it is "evil" stuff. But I am bringing it up because nobody
else has - the fact of the matter is that there are lots of third party
drivers and tools that are going to break if they cannot regenerate the
initrd. I think it's acceptable for Fedora to completely loathe and
distrust binary drivers, but I really don't think it's acceptable to
actively prevent someone from using them if they would like to.
What'll happen is that lots of people will start building per-kernel
initrd images again, and third party websites will talk about how to
"work around" dracut defaults rather than embracing them because they
won't have an option for a generated, portable image.
Jon.
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