From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1R4SoD-0004Ts-Hs for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:26:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7EDC721C174; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:25:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net (smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net [212.54.42.165]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CCD521C154 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 07:25:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [212.54.42.151] (helo=smtp19.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net) by smtpq2.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4SnU-0002Oj-Ap for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:25:16 +0200 Received: from 5ed027a1.cm-7-1a.dynamic.ziggo.nl ([94.208.39.161] helo=data.antarean.org) by smtp19.tb.mail.iss.as9143.net with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1R4SnS-0000cI-PV for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:25:14 +0200 Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F7E3CFA for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:25:28 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at antarean.org Received: from data.antarean.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (data.antarean.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ol7llVYgmfI2 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:25:26 +0200 (CEST) Received: from eve.localnet (eve.lan.antarean.org [10.20.13.50]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by data.antarean.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id AFBE3635 for ; Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:25:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Joost Roeleveld To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] udev and /usr Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:25:12 +0200 Message-ID: <1338783.K1vWFIB1fx@eve> User-Agent: KMail/4.7.1 (Linux/2.6.36-gentoo-r5; KDE/4.7.1; x86_64; ; ) In-Reply-To: References: <1740055.XA9oyAS8HQ@eve> <42470643.KfzzEPSzdV@eve> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-ID: 1R4SnS-0000cI-PV X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-SpamCheck: geen spam, SpamAssassin (niet cached, score=-0.692, vereist 5, BAYES_00 -1.90, KHOP_DYNAMIC 0.73, RDNS_DYNAMIC 0.98, RP_MATCHES_RCVD -0.50) X-ZiggoSMTP-MailScanner-From: joost@antarean.org X-Spam-Status: No X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 7628d91f3d3c4fa1126fe47d62089da5 On Thursday, September 15, 2011 08:32:17 PM Rich Freeman wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2011 at 5:48 PM, Joost Roeleveld wrote: > > Will the ebuild automatically add all the different modules into the > > /etc/dracut.conf ? > > Please note, I am asking these questions to put my mind at ease and > > hopefully > > be able to explain all this back to the people on gentoo-user. > > Honestly, I'd recommend just trying it out. Dracut right now is as usable > as any non-initramfs solution out there and you can always add it as an > extra non-default option in grub so that it doesn't mess you up if it > doesn't work. It is on my list of things to test and I will let you know my findings. > I've found that dracut is pretty auto-magic by default and the config file > doesn't generally need tampering. Most of the options are to NOT load > modules or to minimize the initramfs size by figuring out what modules are > actually needed and only load those (which means if you change hardware > between boots it could come up short). If I change hardware, the kernel is likely not to boot as I disable anything I don't have. > The modules that are available are controlled by use flags. Actually, I > think it is a DRACUT_MODULES variable or something like that (not unlike how > X11 handles drivers). Yes, this matches what I have found out already. -- Joost