On Saturday 06 December 2008 01:37:06 Mark McLoughlin wrote: > Another example of a lack of an explicit dependency causing problems is > Fedora's mkinitrd having this hack: > > if echo $PWD | grep -q /virtio-pci/ ; then > findmodule virtio_pci > fi > > which basically says "if this is a virtio device, don't forget to > include virtio_pci in the initrd too!". Now, mkinitrd is full of hacks, > but this is a particularly unusual one.
Um, I don't know what this does, sorry. I have no idea how Fedora chooses what to put in an initrd; I can't think of a sensible way of deciding what goes in and what doesn't other than lists and heuristics. But there really is no explicit dependency between virtio modules and virtio_pci. There just is for kvm/x86 at the moment, since that is how they use virtio. Running over another bus is certainly possible, though may never happen for x86 (happens today for s390). Cheers, Rusty. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kvm" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
