On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Josh Boyer wrote:

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 02:49:14PM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

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On Fri, 5 Feb 2010, Josh Boyer wrote:

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This allows the upgrade path from older kernel releases to work
with the Fedora mkinitrd tool.
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--- linux-2.6.22.ppc64/drivers/block/ps3disk.c~=092007-07-25 16:06:16.=

000000000 +0100

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+++ linux-2.6.22.ppc64/drivers/block/ps3disk.c=092007-07-26 08:49:44.0=

00000000 +0100

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@@ -628,3 +628,4 @@ MODULE_LICENSE("GPL");
 MODULE_DESCRIPTION("PS3 Disk Storage Driver");
 MODULE_AUTHOR("Sony Corporation");
 MODULE_ALIAS(PS3_MODULE_ALIAS_STOR_DISK);
+MODULE_ALIAS("ps3_storage");

NAKed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven [off-list ref]

ps3_storage was replaced by 3 drivers: ps3disk, ps3rom, and ps3flash. Th=

ese are

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automatically loaded by udev.

How does mkinitrd determine the driver for the root file system on other
systems? Does it really contain a big list of e.g. all SCSI drivers?

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At one time I believe it did have a list of "odd" drivers to explicitly
include.  Anaconda didn't (doesn't?) use udev to determine which drivers
to include in the initrd since the install image is most likely not compo=

sed

on a machine that includes those drivers.  If the install initrd didn't h=

ave

the drivers loaded, it wouldn't install on PS3.
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This is highlighted as a Fedora local change, probably for the reasons yo=

u

state.  We might have already moved past the point where this is needed,
so I'm fine with it being NAKed.  I'll probably just drop it from the Fed=

ora

kernel builds.

It's possible it's (still) needed on Fedora, though (Geoff, do you know?).
But it's definitely not something we want in mainline.

With kind regards,

Geert Uytterhoeven
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