Messages in this thread | | | From | Frans Pop <> | Subject | Re: [GIT *] Allow request_firmware() to be satisfied from in-kernel, use it in more drivers. | Date | Wed, 16 Jul 2008 02:22:39 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 16 July 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Tue, 15 Jul 2008, david@lang.hm wrote: > > becouse the tools that wrote the initrd already put the modules in. I > > don't maintain those tools, they came with the distro. we're just > > asking to not require those tools to be updated immediatly. > > But mkinitrd (which is the _only_ thing that people tend to use to > write initrd's - is there even anything else) has already been doing > this for years, as has been pointed out several times.
Debian doe not have mkinitrd but initramfs-tools [1] and yaird [2]. The status of the last is uncertain (not currently included for Lenny).
Where did you get this strange notion that mkinitrd is the _only_ (your emphasis) thing people use? Point is that I find it really strange that - in the extremely rich and varied world that is based on Linux - you seem so certain that every tool out there already does the right thing for all cases, or can be trivially updated to do so. I just don't believe that.
I even _know_ that yaird is broken wrt. firmware [3]. It's one of the reasons it's unlikely to be included in Lenny.
But hell, I'll see if I can give this a try tomorrow. Get out of this crazy make-belief discussion and provide some facts. Who knows, maybe I'll be surprised and the existing Debian toolsets will do the right thing. I seriously doubt it though.
[1] http://packages.debian.org/sid/initramfs-tools [2] http://packages.debian.org/sid/yaird [3] Only works if config files are edited manually which makes it useless during e.g. new installs.
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