On Sunday 16 November 2003 06:56, Olivier Blin wrote: > > > > my current patch tarball is uploading > > linux-test9s5.tar.bz2 > > > > nosrc.rpm && may be rpm after successfully recompile > > under the same kernel :-) > >
please keep just patches for us poor dial-upers as well :) > > > by the way, why aren't new module-init-tools updated in main ? > > > > because the maintainer is hiding somewhere :( > > Well, the packager (Chmouel) is gone, he doesn't work at > MandrakeSoft anymore. module-init-tools have been maintained by thierry. I do not know about hotplug. > The real maintener is now Andrey, but I guess he hasn't rights to upload > in main. Who can volunteer ? > once more - I do not have cooker so I cannot test it on cooker so I won't upload them to cooker. So I hope someone who can build and test them on cooker would do it. > > > I'll submit a (very small) patch for mkinitrd to add splash in 2.6 > > > initrds. > > > > could you add cramfs support ?-) > > yes, no problem > Should I make it an option in mkinitrd ? > I guess yes. But this is compatibility problem. It is not supported on vanilla kernel so you have to detect patched kernel somehow. And how are you going to do it? You will get a flood of "bug reports" from users who compiled their own kernels (vanilla ones or whatever) and cannot load initrd. So please make it off by default. I assume we could turn it on in kernel post-install script. Is it really as good? Does it worth hassles? > > > > they could be loaded unconditionaly after root is mounted > > (there might be some warnings, but nothing that could harm the system) > > Do you want to try to load *all* mouse and keyboard drivers at boot ? > That might work, but hey, that's not so smart :) > come on it is really just as smart as compiling all of them into kernel. But it will keep *boot* kernel size small making it still possible to fit on a floppy. Or we should officially use some higher density floppy format. Is floppy over 1.44 possible?
