Re: [PATCH] mkinitrd --without option

[Bill Nottingham <notting redhat com>]

Warren Togami (wtogami redhat com) said: 
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=436248
> mkinitrd --withavail==networking
> This option pulls in all networking drivers, and loads the driver during 
> initrd if a matching device exists.  Unfortunately this sometimes can cause 
> failures when multiple drivers support the same network card.  For example, 
> 8139too and 8139cp support an overlapping set of network cards.  nash 
> loadDrivers loads 8139too before 8139cp, while the latter is what the user 
> needs.

Considering the drivers do their own handoff in this case, how does this
actually cause problems/

Bill