[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [7542] - fix loading modules with "-" in their names (mga#9242)

Fri Mar 15 10:55:34 CET 2013

'Twas brillig, and AL13N at 15/03/13 06:50 did gyre and gimble:
+> Op donderdag 14 maart 2013 21:25:15 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
+>> On 14 March 2013 20:29, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
+>>>>> - fix loading modules with "-" in their names (mga#9242)
+>>>>> - add an easy buildtarget for testing
+>>>>
+>>>> A couple remarks:
+>>>> - next time do a commit a time (first your change, then bumping version)
+>>>
+>>> ah, ok, is there a reason for this (to have separate a change and then a
+>>> version bump)?
+>>
+>> in order to have smaller easier to review commits.
+>> You really do not want to come on big old commits when trying to understand
+>> a problem.
+>>
+>>>> I hope you tested several modules with both case?
+>>>
+>>> yes, i tried with several. and since the xen-netfront modules aren't
+>>> autodetected for some reason (i'm trying to look into it)
+>>
+>> b/c it has no pci/usb alias, only the following (which we do not look for)
+>> alias:          xennet
+>> alias:          xen:vif
+>>
+>> well, we don't know how to detect that.
+> 
+> supposedly udev should give events to load that...
+> 
+> but perhaps stage1 doesn't use udev?
+> 
+> would you think it would be ok, to manually add such workaround code in 
+> stage1?
+
+For mga4 I hope I have the time to look into rebasing stage1 on
+dracut... not sure it is the right thing overall, but it would be nice
+to cut down on different things used in different places (assuming it
+doesn't cause any problems!).
+
+But, meh, we'll see how the time goes!!
+
+Col
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