-----Original Message----- From: Jan Beulich [mailto:JBeulich@suse.com] Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2014 10:35 To: Davy Kager Cc: opensuse-kernel@opensuse.org; Jeff Mahoney Subject: RE: [opensuse-kernel] Modularize PS/2 driver for Xen/EC2
On 24.04.14 at 10:27, <mail@davykager.nl> wrote: I just installed kernel-ec2-3.14.1-24 to see how it would do. There are some warnings on mkinitrd: modprobe: FATAL: Module thermal not found. WARNING: no dependencies for kernel module 'thermal' found. modprobe: FATAL: Module processor not found. WARNING: no dependencies for kernel module 'processor' found. modprobe: FATAL: Module fan not found. WARNING: no dependencies for kernel module 'fan' found. Are these predefined somewhere? My virtual box definitely doesn't have access to the system's thermals. ;)
No, that's a shortcoming of how the initrd gets set up - these drivers shouldn't even be attempted to be included in a PV DomU. But since this is only cosmetic, I guess no-one cared enough so far to suppress these warnings.
AKA safe to ignore? Good to know, thanks! Thought this might be configurable in /etc/sysconfig/kernel. Either way, system appears to run fine.
* Seems to boot just like kernel-xen. Are (all) Xen DomU-specific patches in this kernel?
Yes, the sources the various flavors get built from are the same.
Jan
Okay, and this also goes for SUSE patches and Xen-optimized kernel configuration changes? That is, kernel-ec2 is like kernel-xen minus the hypervisor/Dom0 side of things, and minus real hardware drivers? And I'm not doing something silly running this on a relatively modern Xen PV system? Would be great if the SERIO/I8042/LIBPS2/MOUSEDEV bits can be taken care of for kernel-ec2. I appreciate that doing this for all kernels would be a risk that isn't worth taking if the only real advantage is that some people save 1 second on their boot process while others are left with broken hardware. Thanks for all the helpful replies! Davy -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-kernel+owner@opensuse.org