[PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-<version> instead of initrd-<version> (#519185)

Matthew Garrett mjg at redhat.com
Fri Sep 4 16:51:35 UTC 2009


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. What are we going to recommend for this case? I know
> one can still build a kernel-specific version, but I fear that this
> results in many users having no benefit of the generic image because
> it'll not contain the additional bits they needed to add.

Isn't the point of the new infrastructure that we can provide multiple 
initramfs modules that will all end up in the filesystem on boot? Users 
who want to add drivers could do it even more easily than they currently 
can.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org




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