linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24

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Message-ID: <479A3ED3.6020808@goop.org>
Date:	Fri, 25 Jan 2008 11:56:03 -0800
From:	Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@...p.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [GIT PATCH] driver core patches against 2.6.24

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I'm too lazy to want to do my own initrd. I just use the prepackaged ones 
> and rely on the fact that my private kernel will refuse to load modules 
> that aren't meant for it anyway.
>   

initrds generally aren't prepackaged, but generated on install (at least 
with Fedora).  You can regenerate them with "mkinitrd -f 
/boot/initrd-2.6.24.img 2.6.24".  Also, I find that "make 
modules_install install" does it automatically from a kernel build.

    J
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