Re: [PATCH] allow dd=URL to update storage drivers

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 15:22 -0500, Jeff Bastian wrote:
> When downloading a driver disk from an http or ftp server with
>    linux dd=http://...
> the loader first calls busProbe() to load the network drivers, but this 
> also loads storage drivers (and more), so you cannot update storage 
> drivers with this method.
> 
> The attached patch turns the LOADER_FLAGS_NOSTORAGE flag on before calling 
> busProbe() and then restores the original flags afterwards.  This loads 
> the network drivers, but doesn't touch storage until the next call to 
> busProbe() which will use the updated drivers.
> 
> Thoughts?

The problem is that you could be loading your driver disk off of
something that comes from a storage driver (which comment in the code
aside, is supported now).  By not loading storage drivers, you then
don't have the driver for where you may be grabbing your driver disk.

Also, this doesn't apply at all on master

Jeremy