Bug 196104

Summary:	mkinitrd network code doesn't work for drivers without modaliases
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Component:	mkinitrd	Assignee:	Jeremy Katz <katzj>
Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	notting, pjones
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Fixed In Version:	5.0.47-1	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Description Jeremy Katz 2006-06-21 03:00:02 UTC

The code in mkinitrd for finding net devices won't work for drivers which don't
have modaliases (aka Xen, and probably also some of the wacky platform net
devices too).  

I'll probably put in a hack for now for Xen, but we probably want a better fix
for fc6 final

Comment 1 Bill Nottingham 2006-06-29 03:49:04 UTC

Run ethtool -i <interface> and awk out the 'driver' field? (and beat drivers
that don't support that...)

Comment 2 Jeremy Katz 2006-06-29 15:02:03 UTC

Sounds sane... we could actually probably even do a combination of the two.  Try
the modalias first (because that will better handle if a driver changes names
from one kernel to another) and if that fails go for ethtool ops.

Comment 3 Bill Nottingham 2006-06-29 18:53:00 UTC

Added in CVS. Not built.