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From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: modutils for both redhat kernels and 2.5.x
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On Tue, 26 Nov 2002, Jamie Lokier wrote:

> Rusty Russell wrote:
> > > Depmod no longer exists.
> > 
> > This is true.  It doesn't need to for 0.7, but it's being reintroduced
> > in 0.8 for speed.
> 
> Doesn't it?  When I upgraded from 2.5.45 to 2.5.48, and installed
> module-init-tools-0.7, a whole bunch of modules failed to load
> automatically, and I ended up with no pcmcia, no network, no
> af_packet, no loopback device...

Having the driver for the root device not load from the initrd kind of
sucks as well. Actually I always build the loopback and ramdisk in, I
don't want to find out if initrd boot would work without them ;-)

But trying to build a single kernel for multiple configs of hardware is
much harder if you can't just roll multiple initrd files from the single
compile. I guess you can build every possible driver in, but I'd rather
not.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

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