Re: [RFC] put symbolic links between drivers and modules in thesysfs tree

[James Bottomley]

On Sat, 2004-09-25 at 04:21, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> btw does that mkinitrd already use 
> readlink /sys/block/sda/device/block/device
> 
> (which gives
> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:06.0/0000:03:0b.0/host1/1:0:0:0
> as output)
> 
> the pci path that gives can easily be matched to modules.pcimap to find
> the information in case of a PCI device, so at least the table in your
> mkinitrd doesn't need to contain PCI devices.....

So tell me what happens when my root device is on MCA (which is one of
my machines) or is a parisc internal device (which is another)...

Putting the modules link in relieves mkinitrd from having to understand
anything about the bus types.

James


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