[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut.

Fri Dec 16 02:07:08 CET 2011

On 15.12.2011 18:36, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+> 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 15/12/11 16:16 did gyre and gimble:
+>>>>>> Though, as Harald says, it might prove to be slow, since we'd have to
+>>>>>> compare every alias of every module considered by dracut against the
+>>>>>> system modalias list... Well, I guess we'll see.
+>>>>
+>>>> Yeah I guess it would be good to have the this cached into some kind of
+>>>> matrix, but that might be a bit tricky in sh...
+>> perl rules!
+> 
+> :)
+> 
+>> More seriously, ever heard of modprobe --resolve-alias?
+> 
+> Ohh, that could indeed do most of the hard work.
+
+Right, we could run all the modaliases through it and then get a simple
+module list to compare against (dunno why I didn't think of that).
+
+One problem with that is that -R is fairly new, but dunno if that is a
+problem. It can also be emulated with -ivn and filtering, though, if
+necessary:
+http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx-kbd-mouse-x11/trunk/tools/display_driver_helper?r1=2245&r2=2244&pathrev=2245
+
+> Anssi just in case you work on this over the holidays, I think Harald
+> might not be about much until the new year... just in case you try to
+> poke him on IRC for any reason.
+
+OK.
+
+-- 
+Anssi Hannula
+