* Karsten Merker [Thu Sep 25, 2014 at 08:15:48AM +0200]:
> On Tue, Sep 23, 2014 at 11:42:08PM +0200, Michael Prokop wrote:

> > Does this look like it would provide what you're asking for?
> > http://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/kernel/initramfs-tools.git/commit/?h=mika/bug_762634&id=3b835665015c0a9287284c2548b12ab7c8cabc78

> outside d-i and for the "MODULES=most" configuration, this works
> fine:
[...]
> Inside the /target chroot created by d-i, update-initramfs is by default
> configured to run with "MODULES=dep" and gives only the following
> modules on my armhf/sunxi test system:

Hmpf, I so much am not a fan of this default "MODULES=dep" behaviour
of d-i...

[...]
> The phy-sun4i-usb module is missing there, although it is loaded
> by the running kernel:

> # lsmod  |grep phy_sun4i_usb
> phy_sun4i_usb           4260  4

> Without phy_sun4i_usb, USB support does not work at all on this
> platform, so this module would always have to be included.

> The missing ohci-hcd and ohci-platform modules would be explained
> by the fact that this particular device technically has both EHCI
> and OHCI controllers, but the platform-dependent OHCI glue code
> is not yet implemented in the kernel, so the OHCI part is
> currently invisible to the kernel.

Ok

> When manually running update-initramfs with MODULES=most inside
> the d-i /target chroot, all three modules (ohci-platform,
> ehci-platform and phy-sun4i-usb) are there, but by default the
> user is not presented with a choice regarding MODULES=dep vs. 
> MODULES=most in d-i.  The relevant debconf prompt is only
> presented at debconf priority "medium", i.e. when running d-i in
> "expert" mode, so I would appreciate very much if you could
> include the missing phy-sun4i-usb module also when building the
> initramfs with MODULES=dep.

Is there a /sys/... entry which would make it obvious for i-t that
phy-sun4i-usb exists/should be loaded?

regards,
-mika-

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