Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761365AbYAYV6Z (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:58:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755205AbYAYV6R (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:58:17 -0500 Received: from gw.goop.org ([64.81.55.164]:50398 "EHLO mail.goop.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754810AbYAYV6Q (ORCPT ); Fri, 25 Jan 2008 16:58:16 -0500 Message-ID: <479A5B72.6080701@goop.org> Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:58:10 -0800 From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (X11/20071115) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Jon Masters , Greg KH , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24 References: <20080125071127.GA4860@kroah.com> <20080125185213.GA23475@suse.de> <479A3ED3.6020808@goop.org> <1201296027.32422.80.camel@perihelion> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1343 Lines: 35 Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008, Jon Masters wrote: > >> Right. I assumed that Linus was calling mkinitrd but was being bitten by >> one of the occasional assumptions (I believe we make in that script) >> > > No. I really am not. My /etc/grub.conf looks like this: > > title Linux > root (hd0,0) > kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet > initrd /initrd-2.6.23.14-107.fc8.img > > ie I literally run the fedora initrd. > > I switch kernels, not initrd's. I don't even want to know if the initrd > contains some distro-specific setup... The distro mkinird can reconstruct it containing your freshly built modules (if any) and any other distro goo which needs to go in there. /initrd-2.6.23.14-107.fc8.img doesn't come out of an rpm; its built by an installer script when you install the kernel, and you can run the same script on your kernels. Does you use "make modules_install install" when you build the kernel? It just does the right thing for me under F8, including rebuilding initrd and updating grub.conf. J -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/