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

[Warren Togami]

On 09/04/2009 12:51 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 04, 2009 at 10:53:19AM -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
>
>> The problem I have is that some folks want to include additional drivers
>> into their initrd. What are we going to recommend for this case? I know
>> one can still build a kernel-specific version, but I fear that this
>> results in many users having no benefit of the generic image because
>> it'll not contain the additional bits they needed to add.
>
> Isn't the point of the new infrastructure that we can provide multiple
> initramfs modules that will all end up in the filesystem on boot? Users
> who want to add drivers could do it even more easily than they currently
> can.
>

I am skeptical that we are ready for this.  Not all non-x86 boot loaders 
are capable of handling multiple initrd's, and various types of netboot 
wont do it either.  This is a very late time to rely upon such a new 
feature for something this important.

Warren