hardcoded mkinitrd dep?

[Josh Boyer]

On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 13:09 +0200, dragoran wrote:
> I was testing f7 kernels on fc6 recently to test iwlwifi and I noticed 
> that the kernel depends on a newer mkinitrd for (no?) reason...
> I install the kernels with --nodeps and the boot up fine, the new initrd 
> also looks ok (has the pata modules etc.)
> what was the reason for this?
> a broken mkinitrd version between fc6 and the reuquired one that should 
> be avoided?

I know that a newer mkinitrd fixes an issue where creating a non-xen
initrd while running a xen kernel would leave a segfaulting initrd upon
boot into that new kernel.  I suspect that is the reason (if there
aren't more) that the kernel requires it.

josh