[arch-projects] [MKINITCPIO][PATCH 2/2] Add a virtio hook

[Lukas Fleischer]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 09:42:21AM -0400, Dan McGee wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 9:31 AM, Seblu <seblu at seblu.net> wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 2:50 PM, Dave Reisner <d at falconindy.com> wrote:
> >> On Fri, Sep 16, 2011 at 02:39:44PM +0200, Sebastien Luttringer wrote:
> >>> This allow initcpio to boot vm which use virtio as network/disk backend.
> >>>
> >>> Signed-off-by: Sebastien Luttringer <seblu at seblu.net>
> >>> ---
> >>>  install/virtio |   15 +++++++++++++++
> >>>  1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> >>>  create mode 100644 install/virtio
> >>>
> >>> diff --git a/install/virtio b/install/virtio
> >>> new file mode 100644
> >>> index 0000000..12503e9
> >>> --- /dev/null
> >>> +++ b/install/virtio
> >>> @@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
> >>> +build() {
> >>> +    MODULES="$(checked_modules 'virtio_blk')"
> >>> +    MODULES+=" $(checked_modules 'virtio_pci')"
> >>
> >> checked_modules can take multiple parameters:
> >>
> >>  MODULES=$(checked_modules virtio_{blk,pci})
> >
> > This doesn't work but something like "virtio_\(blk\|pci\)" do the job.
> Define "doesn't work"? Because your solution doesn't work:
> 
> $ echo checked_modules 'virtio_\(blk\|pci\)'
> checked_modules virtio_\(blk\|pci\)
> $ echo checked_modules virtio_{blk,pci}
> checked_modules virtio_blk virtio_pci

checked_modules() invokes all_modules() which calls grep(1) to filter
modules, so using a regular expression here should work (although it
isn't perfect).