Re: XZ support in kmod.udeb
On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 08:46:53AM +0200, Bastian Blank wrote:
>On Fri, Aug 23, 2024 at 12:39:14AM +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote:
>> On 22/08/2024 at 18:50, Bastian Blank wrote:
>> > On Thu, Aug 22, 2024 at 04:38:30PM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
>> > >
>> > > So, does d-i actually use depmod or modinfo?
>> >
>> > Yes, it does. I think we should get rid of it however.
>> >
>> > | % grep ^depmod -B 3 -A 2 kernel-wedge-2.105/commands/copy-modules
>> > | if [ "$os" = linux ]; then
>> > | cat >"debian/$i-$version-di.postinst" <<EOF
>> > | #!/bin/sh -e
>> > | depmod $installedname
>> > | EOF
>> > | fi
>>
>> depmod and modinfo are used by other udeb packages (partman, hw-detect...).
>
>All the depmod calls are not needed, as the kernel packages are the sole
>responsible ones.
>
>For modinfo, hw-detect tries to extract the description of the modules
>to give users a list for manual loading. Under what circumstances will
>udev not auto load the module, but manual loading will result in
>something working?
There's potentially quite a lot of modules that aren't going to be
triggered by udev, e.g. extra filesystems or hardware that's not
discoverable.
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