[Libguestfs] [PATCH 2/4] febootstrap: Cope with non-existing insmod.static

Hilko Bengen bengen at hilluzination.de
Wed Jun 1 08:58:46 UTC 2011


* Richard W.M. Jones:

> ACK, but once I properly test it I think I'll just make !INSMODSTATIC
> the default and only choice.  It doesn't seem like there's any reason
> to call out to an external program when it's so easy to do this way.

In that case, the fork() call could go away, too.

And perhaps it would even be possible to mmap() the .ko files into the
init process instead of reading them into a buffer.

-Hilko




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