[Mageia-dev] RFC: Drop mkinitrd completely in favour of dracut.

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Thierry Vignaud at 15/12/11 16:16 did gyre and gimble:
>>> >> Though, as Harald says, it might prove to be slow, since we'd have to
>>> >> compare every alias of every module considered by dracut against the
>>> >> system modalias list... Well, I guess we'll see.
>> >
>> > Yeah I guess it would be good to have the this cached into some kind of
>> > matrix, but that might be a bit tricky in sh...
> perl rules!

:)

> More seriously, ever heard of modprobe --resolve-alias?

Ohh, that could indeed do most of the hard work.

Anssi just in case you work on this over the holidays, I think Harald
might not be about much until the new year... just in case you try to
poke him on IRC for any reason.

Col

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