Subject: Re: bug#31598: Check for initrd-modules fails to detect when loaded module and on-disk module filename differ

From: [email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès)
Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 23:38:14 +0200

Hello Vagrant & Florian,

Vagrant Cascadian <[email-masked]> skribis:

> In my config:
>
>   (initrd-modules (append (list ... "sdhci-of-arasan" ... ) %base-initrd-modules))
>
>
> When I run:
>
>   $ sudo -E guix system reconfigure /etc/config.scm
>
>   <unknown location>: error: you may need these modules in the initrd for /dev/mmcblk1p1: sdhci_of_arasan
>   hint: Try adding them to the `initrd-modules' field of your `operating-system' declaration, along these
>   lines:
>
>         (operating-system
>           ;; ...
>           (initrd-modules (append (list "sdhci_of_arasan")
>                                   %base-initrd-modules)))
>
> Since the on-disk module name uses "-" instead of underscores:
>
>   $ find /gnu/store/*linux-libre* -name '*'arasan.ko
>   /gnu/store/nilzipm6fpicvlzfv1w8yj1j8mm1xlan-linux-libre-4.16.11/lib/modules/4.16.11-gnu/kernel/drivers/mmc/host/sdhci-of-arasan.ko
>
>
> But the loaded module uses "_" in the name:
>
>   $ lsmod | grep arasan
>   sdhci_of_arasan        20480  1
>   cqhci                  24576  1 sdhci_of_arasan
>   sdhci_pltfm            16384  1 sdhci_of_arasan
>   sdhci                  61440  2 sdhci_pltfm,sdhci_of_arasan

I believe this is fixed by 411959bef30b488928ab2418a064c8a9b0347c41.
Let me know if it’s not!

Thanks,
Ludo’.