-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 13:24:34 +0100 Frans Pop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Monday 28 November 2005 12:45, Jonas Smedegaard wrote: > > The following problems are known for yaird currently in sid: > > Add: > * Does not work for drivers that don't have sysfs support, like > BusLogic Ahem - yes: On Mon, 28 Nov 2005 12:45:42 +0100 Jonas Smedegaard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Works only with drivers supporting sysfs. > > We do not have _automated_ workarounds, which it seems you imply > > and I clearly didn't above. > > Manual workarounds are not always possible. In a lot of cases manual > workarounds are fine for upgrades, but they are impractical to say > the least for new installations. > Every case where a manual workaround is needed is one that makes > yaird less attractive for use in Debian Installer. I am aware of that: It is not a bug in yaird to rely on the kernel providing sysfs info - it's a design decision. And it's not a bug in the kernel to not provide sysfs info for all drivers - it's a transition phase. But the end result for Debian is that yaird may not be interesting to use by default. We may want a ramdisk tool which keeps its own lists of How the World Really Works, independent from the kernel. Initramfs-tools stores some such info on its own and relies on udev for other parts. Correct me if I am wrong in above summary... > > Only yaird problem I know of leading to problems booting (and > > brick'ing if using bootloaders with no alternative) is with drivers > > that does not support sysfs. We do not have an overview of the size > > of that problem. > > Correct. It would be very nice if that could be investigated. > IMHO it should not be too hard to write a yaird module that checks if > modules that don't support sysfs are loaded on the running system > and, if that is the case, adds them to the initrd. I think it's more tricky than that: How to recognize if such module is relevant for mounting the rootfs or not (without a static list)? But I am not the expert - Erik is, so please file a bugreport and let him and other clever people judge sanity of such improvement :-) - Jonas - -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist og Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ - Enden er nær: http://www.shibumi.org/eoti.htm -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFDiwBFn7DbMsAkQLgRAmt4AJ4xeaPlkgxHTXMkg3m8SsRThjxJUQCcCPrD G5Mct5MPWRrJVzJnftgOCu4= =AT/A -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
