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From: Andreas Enge <andreas@enge.fr>
To: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>
Cc: guix-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Kernel modules in initrd
Date: Sat, 24 Feb 2018 00:02:39 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180223230239.GA6140@jurong> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180223152855.6a08f8bd@scratchpost.org>

Hello,

On Fri, Feb 23, 2018 at 03:28:55PM +0100, Danny Milosavljevic wrote:
> No, wait, according to https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43699/debian-does-not-detect-serial-pci-card-after-reboot/43723#43723 ,
> the kernel should be doing that even without udev.  Are we sure we need to manually modprobe the stuff in gnu/build/linux-boot.scm in
> the first place?  I think we should just add kmod to the initrd - that's it.

in that case, if I understand correctly, the security question would not
be a problem any more, right, as only really needed modules would be loaded
by the kernel? Then we could add more modules to the initrd.

Andreas

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-23 23:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-22 21:17 Kernel modules in initrd Andreas Enge
2018-02-22 21:29 ` Jan Nieuwenhuizen
2018-02-22 21:44   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-22 21:34 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-22 21:50   ` [PATCH] linux-initrd: Add ATA and SAS modules to the default set of modules Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-27 15:03     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-22 21:53   ` Kernel modules in initrd Andreas Enge
2018-02-22 22:01 ` Mark H Weaver
2018-02-23  1:00   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-23 14:28     ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-23 23:02       ` Andreas Enge [this message]
2018-02-25 11:43         ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-26 15:20           ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-26 16:26             ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-27 15:02               ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-27 19:32                 ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-27 20:52                   ` Danny Milosavljevic
2018-02-28 21:49                     ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-23 22:39   ` Ludovic Courtès
2018-02-24  8:28     ` ng0
2018-02-27 15:04       ` Ludovic Courtès

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