On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 10:06:28AM +0200, Martin Husemann wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 07:38:53AM +0100, David Laight wrote: > > IIRC you can explicitly request (from boot.cfg) that any module be > > loaded. There is no need for boot itself to always try to load > > such a module. > > Yes there is, and I agree that this is the proper way to load it if you > create a special ffs-as-modle-only kernel.
But you don't want /boot to try to load the module if the ffs code is present in the kernel. Since /boot has no way of knowing what is in the loaded kernel it is inappropriate for it to try to load the module file and for the kernel to then try to load the module. David -- David Laight: da...@l8s.co.uk