On Mon, Oct 22, 2007 at 04:32:19PM +0600, Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > >That's wrong. You can load firmware from the initramfs even if the > >driver is built in. There is no valid reason why a driver shouldn't > >be allowed to be built in. > > Could you please explain how this is supposed to work? > > As far as I understand, the kernel initializes all built-in drivers, and > only then starts /init in initramfs (which is then supposed to start > udevd and load firmware) - but that's too late.
populate_rootfs is a rootfs_initcall which happens before all the driver initcalls. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
