Re: [arch-projects] [PATCH] [mkinitcpio] Keep modules.devname needed for on-demand module loading

On Tue, Jan 10, 2012 at 10:52:13PM -0300, Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi wrote:

Otherwise we need to modprobe module manually. (Particulary I need this for archiso for using /dev/loop-control)

Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi --- mkinitcpio | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/mkinitcpio b/mkinitcpio index a1ea51a..54b39d9 100755 --- a/mkinitcpio +++ b/mkinitcpio @@ -357,8 +357,8 @@ if (( ${#ADDED_MODULES[*]} )); then "$BASEDIR/lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION"/modules.{builtin,order} depmod -b "$BUILDROOT" "${KERNELVERSION}"

- # remove all non-binary module.* files - rm "$BUILDROOT/lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION"/modules.!(*.bin) + # remove all non-binary module.* files (except devname for on-demand module loading) + rm "$BUILDROOT/lib/modules/$KERNELVERSION"/modules.!(*.bin|devname)

else warning "No modules were added to the image. This is probably not what you want." -- 1.7.8.1

Thanks. Dragged into my local tree.