Messages in this thread | | | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] put symbolic links between drivers and modules in the sysfs tree | Date | Sat, 25 Sep 2004 18:05:03 +1000 |
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viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk wrote: > On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:29:44PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote: >> This functionality is essential for us to work out which drivers are >> supplied by which modules. We use this in turn to work out which >> modules are necessary to find the root device (and hence what >> initrd/initramfs needs to insert). > > So what will your userland code do when you run it on a system with > non-modular kernel currently running?
Totally agreed. If we didn't care about built-in drivers, then we might as well do cat /proc/modules.
BTW, I'm very glad that this is being worked on and that table in Debian's mkinitrd can finally die.
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