Hi. I'll try to add it at this weekend.
25.07.2015 19:15, kp kirchdoerfer пишет: > Hi Andrew; > > Am Samstag, 4. Juli 2015, 16:00:24 schrieb Andrew: >> 04.07.2015 15:45, kp kirchdoerfer пишет: >>> Am Samstag, 4. Juli 2015, 15:31:40 schrieb Andrew: >>>> 04.07.2015 15:14, kp kirchdoerfer пишет: >>>>> Hi; >>>>> >>>>> I almost agree with Erich :) >>>>> >>>>> Am Samstag, 4. Juli 2015, 14:56:33 schrieb Andrew: >>>>>> 04.07.2015 11:34, Erich Titl пишет: >>>>>>> Hi >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Am 04.07.2015 um 09:50 schrieb Andrew: >>>>>>>> Hi. >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> In most cases probing from squashfs is preferred over loading from >>>>>>>> moddb >>>>>>>> - at least, this will not break system after update if it'll require >>>>>>>> some modules that aren't in moddb (for ex., some ethernet driver). >>>>>>>> >>>>>>>> We may add some option to use legacy behavior with sqfs, or we may >>>>>>>> add >>>>>>>> fallback behavior with tgz package for hwdetect. >>>>>>> This would IMHO be a very ugly behaviour. I belived and still believe >>>>>>> that the sqfs was a more elegant replacement for modules.tgz, and it >>>>>>> is. You decided to use it also on startup with hwdetect, which makes >>>>>>> IMHO most of the modules in initmod completely redundant. >>>>>> This makes moddb completely redundant, and this is leaved only for >>>>>> systems with small storage + rare cases like custom modules. Initmod is >>>>>> needed anycase - it's mounted with rootfs, and requires loaded >>>>>> storage-related modules. >>>>> Indeed; if we empty moddb, we have to make shure most of the modules are >>>>> referenced in /etc/modules, so they'll be loaded by hwdtect during boot >>>>> from sqfs. >>>> No, they'll be loaded like with filled moddb. >>>> >>>>> Will free about 1.8MB on the images, but I believe requires more >>>>> >>>>> maintenance cvause we need to keep /etc/modules in sync with kernel >>>>> modules >>>>> (netfilter etc). Don't know if wildcards are suppported in /etc/modules. >>>> netfilter/iptables/shaper modules are in .depend list of corresponding >>>> packages (<DependsOn> section, lines like 'Module = ipt_*' - yes, with >>>> wildcards; algorithm earlier was used in getdep.sh). >>> Seems I saw it, but forgot the changes you've made. So we can start to >>> work >>> with an empty moddb, but keep it for saving modules after hwdetect or >>> added by the user? >> Right. On my 5.2 boxes there's no moddb at all. >> >>>>>>> To me all this looks like we have no clear policy for module handling, >>>>>>> at least in a transition phase. Just using the sqfs looks like a >>>>>>> regression to me. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Reducing the size or even making initmod redundant would be great if >>>>>>> we could achieve that. I believe with the inclusion of sqfs support in >>>>>>> the kernel this is possible. We should only do hwdetect if sqfs is >>>>>>> present and definitely not inhibit saving modules in moddb. >>>>>>> >>>>>>> I don't want to run hwdetect at each and every boot and there should >>>>>>> be a boot time selection either just by the presence of sqfs or a >>>>>>> command line switch. >>>>>> Will it be enough good to add legacy .tgz handling to hwdetect (so >>>>>> systems with tgz instead of sqfs will have same behavior as earlier)? >>>>> I don't think it's necessary to revive tgz; it will just waste >>>>> disk-space >>>>> adds code etc.. >>>>> >>>>> Saving modules in modbd and get rid of modules.sqfs later and until >>>>> next >>>>> update works if I remoce /var/lib/lrpkg/sqfs.modules (the "blacklist"). >>>>> >>>>> An idea could be to add configuration option in /etc/lrp.conf (like >>>>> lrp_SAVE_MODULES) and if set to "yes" hwdetect does not write the >>>>> modules >>>>> loaded into the blacklist - waht dou you think? >>>>> >>>>> kp >>>> Ok, we may do this. This shouldn't be too complex. Where this option >>>> should be (leaf.cfg, kernel boot line, /etc/lrp.conf or somewhere else?). >>> I think leaf.cfg would be the most obvious place. >>> >>> kp >> Ok, I'll try to add option to init/hwdetect util in some days. I think >> that by default we shouldn't save probed modules to moddb. > What about this one? > Do you have time to add the code soon? > > I'd like to have it before we are doing another rc release for 5.2. > > kp > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > leaf-devel mailing list > leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
