Re: [PATCH] Use modinfo to find out what firmware we need in initrd

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wednesday, January 28 2009, Chris Lumens said:
> > We can use 'modinfo -F firmware' to query the modules that are
> > going into the initrd about what firmware they require. Some
> > modules don't (or can't) export that information, so they will
> > still need to be pulled in manually.
> > 
> > iwl4965 and iwl5000 don't exist anymore, so they were removed from
> > the case statement; qla2xxx exports modinfo data so it's not
> > necessary to pull its firmware manually.
> 
> I'm all for it.  But just for the record, your two concerns when I
> mentioned sending this patch earlier were:

It looks good to me as well
 
> (1) Do we even have modinfo available in the environment this script
> runs under?

Yes.
 
> (2) Will the modinfo that is running be able to read modules of whatever
> architecture we're building images for?

Yes.

Jeremy