Warren Togami wrote:
drivers/net/irda/
drivers/net/appletalk
We could get rid of these (and others) if we'd filter the network-modules
for the call 'eth_type_trans' (nm -uPA ... | grep eth_type_trans)
/> net/ipv4/netfilter
net/sched/
net/irda/
net/bridge/netfilter/
net/netfilter/
net/phonet
net/dccp/
net/ipv6/netfilter/
net/bluetooth/
net/atm/
net/802/
Hmmm... Would it make sense if the network installer would just specify
which modules below /kernel/net are needed and only /kernel/drivers/net
is process automatically?
It seems these (and possibly more) kernel modules are being copied into
the initrd but are never needed during initrd. Any ideas of a better
and more specific way of specifying only network interface drivers?
rm -rf ${initdir}/lib/modules/$kernel/kernel/net/wireless
rm -rf ${initdir}/lib/modules/$kernel/kernel/drivers/net/wireless
Add
nm -uPA $srcmods/$(modprobe -l $mod) | egrep -qv 'ieee802011|wireless' || return
To to just before the modprobe inside instmods and wireless drivers should be gone
In related news, Harald suggested adding this as an ugly hack to get rid
of wireless drivers. This immediately after instmods =net didn't work
for some reason I haven't yet figured out. It is successfully deleting
the modules, but something else is copying them back later. I am hoping
the $drivers cleanups I just pushed help this situation.
So the other bug involving instmods() firmware handling being broken is
the reason for wireless .ko modules to be loaded during initrd but
failing due to missing firmware. We already agreed on this list earlier
to exclude wireless in the standard initrd though, so this doesn't
matter yet. I guess some SCSI or FC controllers might be more effected
by the missing firmware.
Warren Togami
wtogami@xxxxxxxxxx
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