hardcoded mkinitrd dep?

[dragoran]

Dave Jones wrote:
> On Wed, May 02, 2007 at 08:15:25AM -0500, Josh Boyer wrote:
>  > 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.
>
> the dep is there primarily for the scsi_wait_scan change that isn't
> in the FC6 mkinitrd afaik.  In some cases, you'll get away without it
> if your disks respond to the controller and spin up fast enough,
> in other cases, you'll get bitten with the dreaded 'cant mount root'
>
>   
ok, thx for explaining this...