On 2018-04-13, Rick Stevens <ricks@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 04/13/2018 09:34 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> What's the best way to remove the old, broken driver from the
>> initramfs so that the driver in the root filesystem is used on boot?
>>
>> Is there a way to prevent the kernel update process from adding the
>> driver back to the initramfs the next time a kernel is updated?
[...]
> Uhm, probably do a "rmmod foo;modprobe foo", THEN rebuild the
> initramfs image. Also check both the /etc/dracut.conf file and
> /etc/dracut.conf.d directory to see if they're specifying some
> ancient version of your module. At worst, add a
> --add-modules=<modulename>" to the command.
Except the goal is to _not_ have the driver in the initramfs. There
is absolutely no reason it needs to be there, and eliminating it from
the initramfs avoids a source of confusion.
I've identified a couple options:
First create a file named /etc/dracut.conf.d/foo containing the line
omit_drivers+="foo". Then either
1. Rebuild the initramfs with the 'dracut' command. I haven't tested
this yet. It seems a bit risky, since (AFAICT) I don't have any way
of knowing what command-line options were used to generate the
current, working initramfs, and I might end up making unintentional
changes when I regenerate it. One presumes that a well-behaved
admin would edit the dracut config files rather than use
command-line options, but I one should not assume customers are all
well-behaved.
or
2. Unpack the current initramfs-*.img file, delete the foo.ko.xz file
and re-pack the initramfs-*.img file. I've written a bash shell
script to do that, and its seems to work fine. This feels a little
less risky than regenerating the initramfs from scratch.
In either case, the omit_drivers setting should prevent re-breaking
the system with future runs of dracut (either manually by the admin or
as part of a kernel upgrade).
--
Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! ... or were you
at driving the PONTIAC that
gmail.com HONKED at me in MIAMI last
Tuesday?
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