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+ <H1>[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut.</H1>
+ <B>Anssi Hannula</B>
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+ TITLE="[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut.">anssi at mageia.org
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+ <I>Fri Dec 16 02:07:08 CET 2011</I>
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+<PRE>On 15.12.2011 18:36, Colin Guthrie wrote:
+&gt;<i> 'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 15/12/11 16:16 did gyre and gimble:
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Though, as Harald says, it might prove to be slow, since we'd have to
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> compare every alias of every module considered by dracut against the
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> system modalias list... Well, I guess we'll see.
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> Yeah I guess it would be good to have the this cached into some kind of
+</I>&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;<i> matrix, but that might be a bit tricky in sh...
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> perl rules!
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> :)
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> More seriously, ever heard of modprobe --resolve-alias?
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i> Ohh, that could indeed do most of the hard work.
+</I>
+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:
+<A HREF="http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx-kbd-mouse-x11/trunk/tools/display_driver_helper?r1=2245&amp;r2=2244&amp;pathrev=2245">http://svnweb.mageia.org/soft/drakx-kbd-mouse-x11/trunk/tools/display_driver_helper?r1=2245&amp;r2=2244&amp;pathrev=2245</A>
+
+&gt;<i> Anssi just in case you work on this over the holidays, I think Harald
+</I>&gt;<i> might not be about much until the new year... just in case you try to
+</I>&gt;<i> poke him on IRC for any reason.
+</I>
+OK.
+
+--
+Anssi Hannula
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