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Message-ID: <CAPXgP10idwzJgtFW3v=wMnrqfy8+rte3xotkRqRHjssdTT1zyw@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:50:59 +0200 From: Kay Sievers <kay@...y.org> To: Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>, netdev@...r.kernel.org, linux-wireless@...r.kernel.org, Andy Whitcroft <apw@...onical.com> Subject: Re: calling request_firmware() from module init will not work with recent/future udev versions On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:32 PM, Tom Gundersen <teg@...m.no> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 4:16 PM, Johannes Berg > <johannes@...solutions.net> wrote: >>> The logic to tell udev that it runs in the initramfs could easily be >>> implemented by other initramfs tools than dracut, but they usually do >>> not really follow what we do here, so this might for now only work on >>> recent systems using dracut. >> >> Ok, too bad there wasn't a generic way, but at least there's a way >> now :-) > > If I understand the code correctly, it should be enough to put a file > /etc/initrd-release in the initramfs for udev to do the right thing. > But please correct me if I'm wrong Kay. The current check in udev/systemd is the existence of: /etc/initrd-release and the / filesystem must be tmpfs/ramfs to get the environment recognized as 'initrd'. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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