> i've uploaded your work. hotplug is maintained by fredl.

good he has been silent wrt initscirpts as well. I hope he's
not following fpons ...

> btw your changes result in quite some changes (are you sure we haven't
> lost any features ?) :

you never know till you test it.

> --- hotplug--files.old  2003-11-17 12:06:28.000000000 +0100
> +++ hotplug--files.new  2003-11-17 12:06:28.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1,37 +1,27 @@
>  /etc/hotplug
> -/etc/hotplug.d
> -/etc/hotplug.d/default
> -/etc/hotplug.d/default/default.hotplug
 /etc/hotplug/blacklist
> -/etc/hotplug/dasd.agent
> -/etc/hotplug/firmware.agent

looks like reverse diff to me. 
[...]
> -/usr/share/doc/hotplug-2003_08_05
> -/usr/share/doc/hotplug-2003_08_05/ChangeLog
> -/usr/share/doc/hotplug-2003_08_05/README
> +/usr/share/doc/hotplug-2002_04_01
> +/usr/share/doc/hotplug-2002_04_01/ChangeLog
> +/usr/share/doc/hotplug-2002_04_01/README

mine is based on post-2003_08_05 CVS :)

> *********************************************************
> --- hotplug--requires.old       2003-11-17 12:06:28.000000000 +0100
> +++ hotplug--requires.new       2003-11-17 12:06:28.000000000 +0100
> @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@
>  /bin/sh  
> -bash  
>  chkconfig  
>  ifplugd  
>  libc.so.6  

I do not know actually; is it direct or reverse diff?

>> > 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.
>
> just check for /mdk/ and ! /custom/ in uname -r output

that is still just wild guess :(

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