Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] put symbolic links between drivers and modules in the sysfs tree | From | James Bottomley <> | Date | 25 Sep 2004 09:16:15 -0400 |
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On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 04:21, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > btw does that mkinitrd already use > readlink /sys/block/sda/device/block/device > > (which gives > ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/0000:03:0b.0/host1/1:0:0:0 > as output) > > the pci path that gives can easily be matched to modules.pcimap to find > the information in case of a PCI device, so at least the table in your > mkinitrd doesn't need to contain PCI devices.....
So tell me what happens when my root device is on MCA (which is one of my machines) or is a parisc internal device (which is another)...
Putting the modules link in relieves mkinitrd from having to understand anything about the bus types.
James
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