Re: [PATCH] mkinitrd --without option

[Warren Togami <wtogami redhat com>]

Bill Nottingham wrote:
> 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

They do? Hmm...  in both kvm and with a real thin client, removing 
8139too from the initrd allowed NFS to work while it would consistently 
timeout or error out with it.

Warren