Bug 196104 – mkinitrd network code doesn't work for drivers without modaliases

Bug 196104 - mkinitrd network code doesn't work for drivers without modaliases

Summary:	mkinitrd network code doesn't work for drivers without modaliases

Status:	CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE

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Product:	Fedora
Classification:	Fedora
Component:	mkinitrd (Show other bugs)
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Version:	rawhide
Hardware:	All Linux

Priority	medium Severity medium
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Assigned To:	Jeremy Katz
QA Contact:	David Lawrence
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Blocks:	FC6Blocker
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Reported:	2006-06-20 23:00 EDT by Jeremy Katz
Modified:	2007-11-30 17:11 EST (History)
CC List:	2 users (show)

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Fixed In Version:	5.0.47-1
Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Last Closed:	2006-07-13 13:12:50 EDT
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Description Jeremy Katz 2006-06-20 23:00:02 EDT

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 2006-06-28 23:49:04 EDT

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 11:02:03 EDT

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 14:53:00 EDT

Added in CVS. Not built.

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