Bug#263169: initrd-tools orphaned?

[Martin Michlmayr <tbm@cyrius.com>]

* tbm <tbm@cyrius.com> [2004-09-15 11:57]:
> I don't think that patch is right, but I just noticed I've never
> forwarded it to Herbert.  I've asked him for comment now.

Right, I got a response:

"""

The right solution in general is to establish a way to get the list of
SCSI drivers loaded in the system sorted in the order by which they
were loaded.

At the moment mkinitrd does this by looking in /proc/scsi.  So you can
either find out why these SATA modules aren't showing up there, or use
/proc/modules as proposed.

The downsides to the /proc/modules solution are:

1) You lose the loading order, so sda can become sdb etc.
2) Running mkinitrd from a kernel with drivers built-in won't work.

2) is no longer as important since recent 2.6 kernels have castrated
/proc/scsi so running mkinitrd from a vanilla upstream kernel won't
work anyway.
"""
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
tbm@cyrius.com