[arch-general] [PATCH][initscripts] depmod: do not update module dependencies on boot

[Tom Gundersen]

Any comments to this patch? If there are no objections, could it be applied?

Cheers,

Tom

On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 2:03 AM, Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no> wrote:
> Running depmod on boot should not be necessary as the packages
> installing modules should be responsible for updating the dependencies
> themselves (and they do, at least the packages I looked through).
>
> Furthermore, as modules can be loaded very early in boot (by e.g.
> udev), but depmod can only be called after root is mounted rw, we can
> not rely on depmod fixing broken module dependencies.
>
> Signed-off-by: Tom Gundersen <teg at jklm.no>
> ---
>  rc.sysinit |    2 --
>  1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/rc.sysinit b/rc.sysinit
> index 1dfae33..dfb0050 100755
> --- a/rc.sysinit
> +++ b/rc.sysinit
> @@ -351,8 +351,6 @@ if [[ $NISDOMAINNAME ]]; then
>        status "Setting NIS Domain Name: $NISDOMAINNAME"
> /bin/nisdomainname "$NISDOMAINNAME"
>  fi
>
> -status "Updating Module Dependencies" /sbin/depmod -A
> -
>  # Flush old locale settings
>  : >| /etc/profile.d/locale.sh
>  /bin/chmod 755 /etc/profile.d/locale.sh
> --
> 1.7.4.1
>