For me this thread is going roiund in circles gathering ever more snow. Greg h-k is of course right and there is nothing wrong with initrd(s) as separate files, booters know how to load them and they can be updated independen of the vm... The sole problem is that mkinitrd re-makes ALL initrds by DEFAULT, and thus silently break existing boot combinations. Also mkinitrd's command line arguments, which let you linit this are un-intuitive and complex. 99% of the problem would be fixed by having mkinitrd ONLY rebuild missing initrds and a '--all' switch and that is about 10 lines of bash. That is it, all the rest is a Unicorn hunt, and unless you build kernels to try to keep up with greg k-h 'stable' would never worry you, sometimes when I have just built 3.9.7 I wake up to find k-h just released 9,10 overnight. Greg keep up your goog works and thanks! MFG, omb
Am Fri, 28 Jun 2013 17:54:25 -0700, scheib Greg KH:
On Fri, Jun 28, 2013 at 04:59:09PM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote:
If that's the case, then you only need those few modules for your machine. Now wouldn't it be possible to recompile a kernel and include those?
No user is ever going to be asked to rebuild any kernels, that's the point, sorry. Nor is it going to be automated.
If you wish to do something like this, feel free to, but for a general-purpose Linux distro, that way lies madness, trust me[1].
greg k-h
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