Re: initramfs: kernel update adds unwanted driver?

2018-04-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-04-13, Rick Stevens <ri...@alldigital.com> wrote: > On 04/13/2018 09:34 AM, Grant Edwards wrote: >> What's the best way to remove the old, broken driver from the >> initramfs so that the driver in the root filesystem is used on boot? >> >> Is there a

initramfs: kernel update adds unwanted driver?

2018-04-13 Thread Grant Edwards
On Fedora 27 with kernel recently updated to 4.15.15-300.fc27.i686, I ran into a problem when I installed a new version of a driver (we'll call "foo") in /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/kernel/drivers/[...]. Doing a "rmmod foo; modprobe foo" loads the new driver and everything works great. However,

Re: initramfs: kernel update adds unwanted driver?

2018-04-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2018-04-14, francis.montag...@inria.fr <francis.montag...@inria.fr> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Apr 2018 21:03:34 -0000 Grant Edwards wrote: > >> First create a file named /etc/dracut.conf.d/foo containing the line >> omit_drivers+="foo". Then either > > Bexwar

Re: initramfs: kernel update adds unwanted driver?

2018-04-16 Thread Grant Edwards
t the latter of the two is the critical one). I suppose I could remove those files, regenerate the initramfs, then re-install them. That's annoying. :/ -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwardsYow! Look! A ladder!