Bug 238528

Summary:	RFE: always include usb-storage
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Bill Nottingham <notting>
Component:	mkinitrd	Assignee:	Peter Jones <pjones>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Priority:	medium
Version:	rawhide	CC:	jfrieben, poelstra, rvokal
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Description Bill Nottingham 2007-05-01 03:46:56 UTC

We already include the USB host controller modules in the initrd, for the cases
of USB mice and keyboard.

If we always included usb-storage, than rebooting would Just Work when you move
a drive from being internal to an external enclosure - it wouldn't require a
remade initrd.

(Yes, this leaves firewire out for now.)

Comment 1 Joachim Frieben 2007-07-03 14:44:03 UTC

With a "USB" stick inserted in a "USB" port of my "PR440FX" mainboard
and running kernel "2.6.21-1.3228.fc7", I obtain:

  "libusual: modprobe for usb-storage succeeded, but module is not
   present"

in the "dmesg" log file, and there is actually no trace of the "USB"
device in it.
Only after loading "usb-storage.ko" -manually-, I succeed in having
the "USB" stick appear in "dmesg" and being able to mount it by hand
[yes, it's not mounted by "hal" (?) but this requires a different
bug report, I suppose]. I suppose this problem would disappear if
"usb-storage.ko" were included in the "initrd" file.

Comment 2 Jon Stanley 2008-04-23 20:30:17 UTC

Adding FutureFeature keyword to RFE's.

Comment 3 John Poelstra 2008-08-28 03:37:03 UTC

What is your take on this Peter?

Comment 4 Peter Jones 2009-02-17 20:13:45 UTC

If we always want this included, we should be building it in to the kernel.