mkinitrd-bash devel questions

[Warren Togami]

Hi,

pjones said it might be off-topic for this list, but lacking a better 
place elsewhere he suggested posting here.

http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/git/mkinitrd.git/
I am working on fixing bugs in the bash branch of mkinitrd.
http://fedorapeople.org/~wtogami/mkinitrd-bash/
Here is my git branch based upon katzj's repo.

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for i in $(seq 0 127) ; do mknod /dev/loop$i b 7 $i: ; done

Is it really necessary to create 128 loop devices in initrd?  This seems 
a little excessive.

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# If we have ide devices and module ide, do the right thing
ide=/proc/ide/ide*
if [ -n "$forceide" -o -n "$ide" -a "x$PROBE" == "xyes" ]; then
     findmodule -ide-disk
fi

This code never did work properly.

1) ide=/proc/ide/ide* makes $ide == "/proc/ide/ide*", it never did probe.
2) As a result of that, -n "$ide" always was true.
3) /proc/ide doesn't even exist now.
4) ide-disk module doesn't exist now either.

Should we just remove this block, --force-ide-probe and PROBE?

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More later...

Warren Togami
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