Chris Adams wrote:
Once upon a time, Gerrard Geldenhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
The installer adds these lines to modprobe.conf when installing:
An IBM 336:
alias scsi_hostadapter mptbase
alias scsi_hostadapter1 mptspi
alias scsi_hostadapter2 ata_piix
I believe those lines are used by mkinitrd to determine which modules
should be included in the initrd whenever a new kernel is installed. If
you remove them, the next time you install a kernel update and reboot,
your system won't boot because it won't be able to find your hard
drive(s).
They started in the kernel:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel-2.6.24]$ find * -type f | xargs grep -2
scsi_hostadapter
linux-2.6.24.x86_64/drivers/scsi/scsi.c- * support added by Michael
Neuffer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
linux-2.6.24.x86_64/drivers/scsi/scsi.c- *
linux-2.6.24.x86_64/drivers/scsi/scsi.c: * Added
request_module("scsi_hostadapter") for kerneld:
linux-2.6.24.x86_64/drivers/scsi/scsi.c: * (Put an "alias
scsi_hostadapter your_hostadapter" in /etc/modprobe.conf)
linux-2.6.24.x86_64/drivers/scsi/scsi.c- * Bjorn Ekwall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
linux-2.6.24.x86_64/drivers/scsi/scsi.c- * (changed to kmod)
vanilla-2.6.24/drivers/scsi/scsi.c- * support added by Michael Neuffer
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
vanilla-2.6.24/drivers/scsi/scsi.c- *
vanilla-2.6.24/drivers/scsi/scsi.c: * Added
request_module("scsi_hostadapter") for kerneld:
vanilla-2.6.24/drivers/scsi/scsi.c: * (Put an "alias scsi_hostadapter
your_hostadapter" in /etc/modprobe.conf)
vanilla-2.6.24/drivers/scsi/scsi.c- * Bjorn Ekwall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
vanilla-2.6.24/drivers/scsi/scsi.c- * (changed to kmod)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel-2.6.24]$
but as the only references now are in the comments, I guess the kernel
doesn't use them any more.
However, mkinitrd does:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel-2.6.24]$ grep scsi_hostadapter /sbin/mkinitrd
scsimodules=`grep "alias[[:space:]]\+scsi_hostadapter"
$modulefile | grep -v '^[ ]*#' | LC_ALL=C sort -u | awk '{ print
$3 }'`
[EMAIL PROTECTED] kernel-2.6.24]$
as of F9.
Seems to me you can get the modules loaded any way you like:-)
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Cheers
John
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