On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 07:38:53AM +0100, David Laight wrote: > IIRC you can explicitly request (from boot.cfg) that any module be > loaded. There is no need for boot itself to always try to load > such a module.
Yes there is, and I agree that this is the proper way to load it if you create a special ffs-as-modle-only kernel. Martin