Bug 65485

Summary:	initrd modprobe script is un-needed
Product:	Gentoo Release Media	Reporter:	postmodern <brodigan>
Component:	Everything	Assignee:	Gentoo Genkernel Maintainers <genkernel>
Status:	RESOLVED WONTFIX
Severity:	enhancement	CC:	livecd
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description postmodern 2004-09-26 19:51:17 UTC

The kernel version bug in previous versions of busybox which inspired the /sbin/modprobe bash script have been fixed in the latest releases of busybox. I suggest that the initrd be upgraded to use the latest BusyBox (maybe cvs) that is concidered stable.

Reproducible: Always
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Comment 1 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-27 07:09:11 UTC

The initrd creation is totally done by genkernel, so I am reassigning to them.

Comment 2 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-09-27 08:35:14 UTC

Do we have a upstream busybox that now supports mounting cryptoloop on 2.6 using the new 2.6 API and mounting plain loops on 2.4?

Comment 3 postmodern 2004-09-27 15:15:16 UTC

As of the current CVS snapshot of busybox losetup util does not support enabling encryption upon its loops.

Comment 4 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-10 01:39:26 UTC

Hrm, well we need a busybox that can do 2.6 and 2.4 loop mounting, and since the CVS ones don't provide this, I don't think it is worth the effort of getting the support into a new busybox - the current method works without any problems anyway...

Comment 5 Tim Yamin (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2004-10-10 01:39:58 UTC

Closing as WONTFIX; comment #4.