/lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.* [was Re: Who decides what drivers go on the install disk?]

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Fri Jul 27 18:03:29 UTC 2007


Jeremy Katz (katzj at redhat.com) said: 
> > If
> > it's done at runtime, you can handle whatever kernel you happen to get,
> > even if it's not one of ours.
> 
> There are plenty of constraints we have around kernel configuration.
> Asking for a file to be shipped with the kernel which tells us a little
> bit about what modules were configured just doesn't seem that out there

In that case, I strongly suggest combining the libata and scsi lists into
a single list for block devices - I doubt the 1M savings on the livecd is
really worth splitting hairs here.

Bill




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