[Mageia-dev] [soft-commits] [7542] - fix loading modules with "-" in their names (mga#9242)

[AL13N]

> 'Twas brillig, and AL13N at 15/03/13 06:50 did gyre and gimble:
>> Op donderdag 14 maart 2013 21:25:15 schreef Thierry Vignaud:
>>> On 14 March 2013 20:29, AL13N <alien at rmail.be> wrote:
>>>>>> - fix loading modules with "-" in their names (mga#9242)
>>>>>> - add an easy buildtarget for testing
>>>>>
>>>>> A couple remarks:
>>>>> - next time do a commit a time (first your change, then bumping
>>>>> version)
>>>>
>>>> ah, ok, is there a reason for this (to have separate a change and then
>>>> a
>>>> version bump)?
>>>
>>> in order to have smaller easier to review commits.
>>> You really do not want to come on big old commits when trying to
>>> understand
>>> a problem.
>>>
>>>>> I hope you tested several modules with both case?
>>>>
>>>> yes, i tried with several. and since the xen-netfront modules aren't
>>>> autodetected for some reason (i'm trying to look into it)
>>>
>>> b/c it has no pci/usb alias, only the following (which we do not look
>>> for)
>>> alias:          xennet
>>> alias:          xen:vif
>>>
>>> well, we don't know how to detect that.
>>
>> supposedly udev should give events to load that...
>>
>> but perhaps stage1 doesn't use udev?
>>
>> would you think it would be ok, to manually add such workaround code in
>> stage1?
>
> For mga4 I hope I have the time to look into rebasing stage1 on
> dracut... not sure it is the right thing overall, but it would be nice
> to cut down on different things used in different places (assuming it
> doesn't cause any problems!).
>
> But, meh, we'll see how the time goes!!

i doubt you'll have time...

but, in that case, maybe stage1 (or stage2) is not required anymore???

maybe i should first do these workarounds about xen:vif ...