Jeremy Katz (katzj@xxxxxxxxxx) said: > > - Ergo, we need to either duplicate all the alias handling, sysfs > > walking, etc. in anaconda... > > - Or, we use the system modprobe and udev coldplug. (That is what > > this implements.) > > jcm had said he was going to get a libmodprobe, but I suspect that's not > likely to happen in a timely fashion :-/ Even with that, you'd still need code to walk sysfs. Not that that's *that* complicated, but it is duplication. > > - Passing module options on the commandline is still supported > > Given that we write out /etc/modprobe.d/anaconda, does it then make > sense to switch to copying that over to the installed system rather than > the fun around /tmp/modprobe.conf? Intended but forgot to implement - yes, that would be the right thing to do. > > - blacklist=<foo> is now supported, to blacklist automatic loading of > > a particular module > > How does blacklisting interact with manually selecting the same module? blacklisting means 'ignore any aliases for this module'. So it will never get loaded by net-pf-<whatever> or pci:<whatever> aliases, but can still be loaded directly by hand. > > - nofirewire, nousb, etc. are ignored. The only noXX handled is > > 'noprobe', which disables udev coldplug entirely. > > Having some of these back would be really useful -- the fact that we can > just not probe a specific problematic subsystem is regularly more useful > than having to push people through loading every driver manually. > Especially when you have a USB keyboard... The simple way to do this would be to boot with blacklist=firewire-ohci, or similar. If we want to automatically map a couple of old common options to this, we could, but I don't think it's the right way to handle this for new things. (After all, fix the kernel!). > > - Driver disks are not modified to the new tree layout. Basically, > > they should now be extracted and copied to > > /lib/modules/$(whatever)/updates/. Some tweaks with depmod may be > > necessary to get the aliases in the right place. > > Does this mean we'll need to run depmod at installer runtime? Or can we > just concatenate the alias and deps files? Concatenation should work for modules.alias. Not 100% about modules.dep; will need to test/bug jcm. > > Size concerns: > > Before: 7.2MB > > After: 8.6MB > > What's the memory overhead of not having the modules compressed "on > disk"? du -sh of the uncompressed initramfs vs the old should give a > reasonable idea here. F8: 9.4MB This: 29.7MB 17.3MB of the 20.3MB difference is in the modules tree. Bill _______________________________________________ Anaconda-devel-list mailing list Anaconda-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/anaconda-devel-list
