dracut speed and kernel version

[Harald Hoyer]

On 10/09/2009 10:20 PM, Adam Pribyl wrote:
> This is my first time I was forced to "hand use" dracut, because
> initramfs build by kernel install does not work (due to kexec-tool bug).
>
> But I was surprised by few thinks:
>
> 1. dracut accepts as a kernel version non existing kernel name and
> builds the initramfs - this is really crazy (there are some warnings,
> but it tooks a bit of time before first "File does not exist".)
>

You are right.. will add a precheck.

> 2. dracut initramfs build takes ages compared to mkinitrd

Does it really matter? How often do you build an initramfs per week?

>
> 3. dracut spits some confusing warnings, I am not sure what to do with:
> W: Possible missing firmware aic94xx-seq.fw for module aic94xx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql8100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2500_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2400_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2322_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2300_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2200_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
> W: Possible missing firmware ql2100_fw.bin for module qla2xxx.ko
>
> Am I doin' something wrong or this is expected behaviour?

Well, there are some modules which might require a firmware. Dracut is only 
reporting that they are missing. Just in case...
Maybe I should suppress these warnings.. what do you think?

>
> Adam Pribyl
>