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Subject: [bug#30604] [PATCH v10 5/6] linux-initrd: Provide our own 'modprobe'
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Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> skribis:

>> That was why earlier I kept /sbin/modprobe as the name (it's the
>> default Linux uses) and made sure that the file /sbin/modprobe is already
>> in the initrd (as opposed to created by boot-system).
>
> Note: The simplest change would be to keep this patch as-is but add=20
>
>     ;; Make sure that Linux can modprobe even before boot-system started =
up.
>     (when modprobe
>       (mkdir-p "sbin")
>       (symlink modprobe "sbin/modprobe")
>       (compile-to-cache "sbin/modprobe")) ; Note: without this line booti=
ng is dead slow. [Maybe in this case that wouldn't be so bad - since boot-s=
ystem switches away immediately anyway :)]
>
> to gnu/build/linux-initrd.scm

Yeah, done.  Ideally =E2=80=98program-file=E2=80=99 would take care of this=
.  Future
work!

Ludo=E2=80=99.