Re: [RFC] put symbolic links between drivers and modules in the sysfs tree

[Herbert Xu]

viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 20, 2004 at 01:29:44PM -0400, James Bottomley wrote:
>> This functionality is essential for us to work out which drivers are
>> supplied by which modules.  We use this in turn to work out which
>> modules are necessary to find the root device (and hence what
>> initrd/initramfs needs to insert).
> 
> So what will your userland code do when you run it on a system with
> non-modular kernel currently running?

Totally agreed.  If we didn't care about built-in drivers, then we might
as well do cat /proc/modules.

BTW, I'm very glad that this is being worked on and that table in Debian's
mkinitrd can finally die.

Cheers,
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