Bug#263169: loadmodules incomplete

[Jens Schmalzing <j.s@lmu.de>]

Hi,

Harald Dunkel writes:

> the patch [...] looks into /proc/modules (the user space interface
> for module management) to get a list of loaded modules.

This only works if you are building an initrd for a kernel with the
exact same module configuration.

> On the other side, the current mkinitrd searches for entries in
> /proc/scsi and uses 45 lines sed (hardwired into mkinitrd!) to do a
> mapping to module names.

mkinitrd is far from perfect.  Nevertheless, it works nicely on a
great many systems.

> I doubt that /proc/scsi is the right way to guess which modules
> are loaded.

It is, since it contains information about the installed SCSI
hardware, not about the loaded drivers.

> At least for sata_sil and sata_sis it doesn't work, as it seems.

Patch the sed script, then.

Regards, Jens.

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