Bug#364046: initramfs-tools: when dropped in root fsck mode, the keyboard modules are not (yet) loaded.

[maximilian attems <maks@sternwelten.at>]

retitle 364046 modular i8042 and/or atkbd miss sysfs export to get loaded by udev
severity 364046 normal
reassign 364046 linux-image-2.6.16-1-powerpc
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On Fri, 21 Apr 2006, Sven Luther wrote:

> Package: initramfs-tools
> Severity: important

nack, things after init(1) call are not under initramfs-tools umbrella ;)
 
 
> I am using initramfs-tools on my pegasos test machine, and i noticed that when
> the root filesystem has errors, and you go in the early fsck prompt, where it
> tells you to run fsck in interactive mode, then i have no keyboard, probably
> because the keyboard modules are not (yet) loaded or something.
> 
> The keyboard works when i later go into the fallback shell, if i remember
> correctly.

in initramfs on panic we manually do:
        modprobe -q i8042
	modprobe -q atkbd

 
well udev has no info to load those, so i reassign to linux-image.
regards

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maks