FS#35138 - [mkinicpio] Get rid of warnings regarding firmware with option

Attached to Project: Arch Linux
Opened by Karol Babioch (johnpatcher) - Tuesday, 07 May 2013, 17:49 GMT
Last edited by Dave Reisner (falconindy) - Tuesday, 07 May 2013, 17:59 GMT
Task Type Feature Request
Category Arch Projects
Status Closed
Assigned To No-one
Architecture All
Severity Low
Priority Normal
Reported Version
Due in Version Undecided
Due Date Undecided
Percent Complete 100%
Votes 1
Private No

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Description:

I know about Dave's announcement of mkinitcpio 0.14 (see [1]). I'm one of the "lucky" ones who gets warnings for the fallback image regarding the modules "bfa" and "aic94xx". There seems to be a package "aic94xx-firmware" in the AUR, but in the case of "bfa" there is not even a package for the firmware. So when I understand this right, every single Arch user will get this warning for now.

Obviously enough I'm not a big fan of warnings, especially when I can't do anything about them. Furthermore I don't like the idea that I would have to install some (proprietary) firmware to get rid of warnings. I couldn't find any developer mailing list or something like that, therefore I'm trying to get the rational for this decision here.

Without knowing too much about mkinitcpio itself: Wouldn't it be possible to add some configuration option, which would allow to specify modules, which then wouldn't be added? When I got the man pages right, this isn't possible, its only possible to skip hooks, but not to "skip" modules.
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Closed by  Dave Reisner (falconindy)
Tuesday, 07 May 2013, 17:59 GMT
Reason for closing:  Won't fix
Additional comments about closing:   FS#34255 
Comment by Karol Babioch (johnpatcher) - Tuesday, 07 May 2013, 17:50 GMT
Can't edit, forgot to include the reference for [1].

[1]: https://mailman.archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-projects/2013-May/003752.html

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