Re: LEAF Upgrade and pata-acpi

Am 10.03.2015 um 16:32 schrieb kp kirchdoerfer:
> Hi Erich;
> 
> Am Dienstag, 10. März 2015, 11:39:21 schrieb Erich Titl:
>> Hi Folks
>>
>> I upgraded my WLAN repeater LEAF box today and found a little problem I
>> would like to discuss.
>>
>> The previous release was ~5.1.1 and pata-acpi was loaded, probably from
>> initrd. The current 5.1.3 modules tarball does not appear to include
>> pata-acpi neither is it used on my ALIX board. I don't know the reason
>> for either dropping pata-acpi from the modules tarball nor to include it
>> on any initrd. Is there a hardware combination which would not be able
>> to access pata disks without pata-acpi?
> 
> It was removed from geode-flavour because it is unused on the boards we use 
> (alix).
> See commit e6334e1775bcf15ef8e5fd89ab3481b7f45a0d40
> Though it is debatable.

I believe we should think about the way modules are loaded. I have the
distinct feeling that we are overloading initmod. I believe the modules
present in initmod are loaded if they are/can be used or not. This is
debatable. Then, do we really need specific pata drivers to just load moddb?

I am wondering now if I should just ignore such errors during upgrade,
issue a warning and hope the user understands the problem or if there is
a minimal setting which makes the board survive a reboot.

BTW

Why do we install e100 firmware on geode?

cheers

Erich

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