curious about fedora-shipped "initramfs" image?

Andy Green andy at warmcat.com
Sun Sep 2 09:39:09 UTC 2007


Somebody in the thread at some point said:

> ...
> insmod /lib/scsi_wait_scan.ko
> rmmod scsi_wait_scan
> ...
> 
> so ... insmod the module, only to remove it immediately?  i'm sure
> there's a reason for that, i'd just like to know what it is.  thanks.


/*
 * scsi_wait_scan.c
 *
 * Copyright (C) 2006 James Bottomley <James.Bottomley at SteelEye.com>
 *
 * This is a simple module to wait until all the async scans are
 * complete.  The idea is to use it in initrd/initramfs scripts.  You
 * modprobe it after all the modprobes of the root SCSI drivers and it
 * will wait until they have all finished scanning their busses before
 * allowing the boot to proceed
 */

After it waited... it just takes up space.

-Andy




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