[PATCH 3/3] dracut has initrd-generic-<version> instead of initrd-<version> (#519185)

Jon Masters jonathan at jonmasters.org
Wed Aug 26 18:07:43 UTC 2009


On Wed, 2009-08-26 at 11:45 +0200, Hans de Goede wrote:
> dracut using kernel come with a prebuild initrd-generic-<version> instead
> of initrd-<version>, so if we fail to find /boot/initrd-<version>.img, check
> for /boot/initrd-generic-<version>.img instead. I've done things this way
> so that if we ever need to generate system specific (so non generic) initrd's
> for some reason the code will stay working.

Is the plan to basically migrate to entirely pre-built "generic"
"initrd" initramfs pre-built image files then? Will we even be
generating the kernel specific stuff in the future?

Jon.





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