On Thu, 2009-05-28 at 15:06 -0400, Warren Togami wrote:
> Note this as a TODO if you want some drivers to be usable during the initrd.
> 
> dracut-functions instmods() seems to be broken in that it only looks for 
> firmware in cases where instmods() was called with a single module as a 
> parameter.  Most drivers are copied by dracut as the result of 
> =groupname groups, thus firmware is not being copied for storage and 
> network drivers.
> 
> A better fix might be to wait until all installs are done, then run a 
> modinfo loop across all copied .ko's to install all firmware?

Or to call modinfo only when instmods is actually installing a module,
and not when it is expanding module shorthand.

Which is what one of the patches I just pushed to the repo does.

> Warren Togami
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