On Mon, Mar 03, 2014 at 01:17:29AM +0000, WorMzy Tykashi wrote:
> This patch adds in some extra hackery to make sure that users with btrfs root
> filesystems don't end up with unusable initrds due to the following change
> made upstream [1]. TL;DR: The btrfs module has dropped it's libcrc32c
> dependency, so mkinitcpio no longer pulls in the crc32c module necessary for
> the btrfs module to be inserted. The crc32c module was only pulled in
> previously due to mkinitcpio hackery [2], so extra hackery now seems like the
> logical path.
>
> This problem can be experienced by using linux-mainline on an Arch machine
> with a btrfs root filesystem. Besides from this extra hackery, an alternative
> workaround would be for users in this situation to add crc32c to their
> MODULES aray in their mkintcpio.conf. Of course, this needs to be done ahead
> of the linux-3.14 upgrade for them to avoid the problem (assuming none of
> their other modules depend on libcrc32c).
>
> [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org/msg30912.html
> [2] https://projects.archlinux.org/mkinitcpio.git/tree/functions?id=v16#n398
well, ew.
> ---
> functions | 4 ++++
> 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git a/functions b/functions
> index 33bd28d..fc9e96b 100644
> --- a/functions
> +++ b/functions
> @@ -406,6 +406,10 @@ add_module() {
> add_module "crc32c_intel?"
> add_module "crc32c?"
> ;;
> + btrfs)
> + add_module "crc32c_intel?"
> + add_module "crc32c?"
> + ;;
wouldn't it be easier to just add this to the above case?
> esac
> }
>
> --
> 1.9.0
>
