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

Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar
Tue Jan 10 20:52:13 EST 2012


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

Signed-off-by: Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi <vmlinuz386 at yahoo.com.ar>
---
 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



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