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• Wed May 10 2006 Stew Benedict <sbenedict@mandriva.com> 4.2.17-17.2.20060mdk

  - remove dmraid conflict on x86_64

• Fri May 5 2006 Vincent Danen <vdanen@mandriva.com> 4.2.17-17.1.20060mdk

  - rebuild for updates

• Sat Apr 22 2006 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 4.2.17-18mdk

  - fallback nicely when probing of scsi adapter fails
  - use ignorelocking when invoking dmraid, so it works on readonly initrdfs
  - conflicts with dmraid built with dietlibc on x86_64 due to ContraPolice problem

• Tue Apr 11 2006 <bluca@vodka.it> 4.2.17-17mdk

  - allow using --initrdfs=xxxx again
  - fix --force-evms flag

• Tue Apr 11 2006 Gwenole Beauchesne <gbeauchesne@mandriva.com> 4.2.17-16mdk

  - re-enable initramfs as default
  - conflicts: bootsplash < 3.1.12
  - handle dsdt override support in initramfs (rtp)

• Mon Apr 10 2006 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 4.2.17-15mdk

  - default to initramfs only when using kernel 2.6 (but hold the patch
  since i cannot boot initramfs on my test machine)
  - fix missing closedir prevenitng umount of /initrd/sys (#16699)
  - fix another silly dmraid command line option bug
  - fix evms detection and add --force-evms flag (#12467)
  - fixes verif_scsidriver when mkinitrd knows more than modprobe.conf (#20877)

• Wed Apr 5 2006 Gwenole Beauchesne <gbeauchesne@mandriva.com> 4.2.17-14mdk

  - default to initramfs
  - handle migrations from mptscsih to mptspi and mptfc (#21648)
  - handle ahci/ata_piix through new migrate_scsidriver() infrastructure
  - handle automatic resume (detected through resume= option parsed from cmdline)

• Wed Mar 1 2006 Olivier Blin <oblin@mandriva.com> 4.2.17-13mdk

  - Patch2: don't fail when multiple CD-Rom drives are detected (#21304)

• Fri Dec 23 2005 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandriva.com> 4.2.17-12mdk

  - patch 0: fix EVMS support (obvious bug)

• Sat Dec 17 2005 Olivier Blin <oblin@mandriva.com> 4.2.17-11mdk

  - check all scsi drivers, not only the first one (#20057, Luca Berra)

• Fri Dec 16 2005 Olivier Blin <oblin@mandriva.com> 4.2.17-10mdk

  - Patch1 (updates):
  o fix weird bug that makes nash segfault when some read() fail
  because of a typing issue (it actually appears to be fixed in
  latest libvolume_id, but nash uses an old one)
  o fix buffer overflow that may blank device names found by label
  - Patch2: add label support for CD-Rom devices

• Fri Nov 18 2005 Pixel <pixel@mandriva.com> 4.2.17-9mdk

  - have both ata_piix and ahci (so that you can still boot after changing in the BIOS)

• Wed Oct 5 2005 Gwenole Beauchesne <gbeauchesne@mandriva.com> 4.2.17-8mdk

  - use dietlibc on ppc64 too

• Mon Oct 3 2005 Erwan Velu <erwan@seanodes.com> 4.2.17-7mdk

  - Adding a better label support using vol_id

• Fri Sep 16 2005 Pixel <pixel@mandriva.com> 4.2.17-6mdk

  - fix nash's mkdevices to create /dev/cciss/c0d0 for /sys/block/cciss!c0d0

• Thu Sep 15 2005 Pixel <pixel@mandriva.com> 4.2.17-5mdk

  - verif scsidriver() returns scsi drivers belonging to scsi_hostadapter
  (=> fixes missing BusLogic for vmware)
  (=> wildcatch fix for things like mptscsih which says it is mptbase)

• Thu Aug 4 2005 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 4.2.17-4mdk

  - fix silly bug when using lvm and intird is a readonly filesystem (#16936)

• Wed Jul 6 2005 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 4.2.17-3mdk

  - create fb0 device if we are using graphics boot and udev

• Tue Jul 5 2005 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 4.2.17-2mdk

  - create /dev/tty0

• Fri Jul 1 2005 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 4.2.17-1mdk

  - sync with rh 4.2.17
  don't use udev/udevstart do it internally
  remove files from initramfs before executing the new init.
  reworked "console=" handling
  - man page fixes (#16439)
  - really load all device mapper modules
  - support loopback root over fatx on xbox (Stew)
  - load sd_mod when using dmraid (Pixel)
  - hack to workaround stacked md devices
  - revert the "allow changing root device from command line"

• Wed May 4 2005 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 4.2.12-1mdk

  - merge rh 4.2.12
  - work correctly with noclobber set
  - add dm-mirror, dm-zero, dm-snapshot modules when using lvm2
  - allow changing root device from command line when using lvm/dmraid
  - better support for initramfs
  - require cpio for initramfs
  - allow mounting root by uuid
  - nash: expand environment variables on command line
  - nash: Don't copy "console=" arguments from /proc/cmdline to init
  - use an even bigger udev tmpdir
  - lvm1/2: activate only the root vg
  - lvm2: use --ignorelockingfailure for vgmknodes
  - lvm2: use a better lvm.conf
  - rework the boot scsi controller detection for 2.6 kernels using sysfs
  - move the iteraid hack so it doesn't interfere with other drivers
  - add an option to spawn a busybox for debugging initrd
  - nash: fix a bug causing mount to ignore the --ro parameter if rw was specified in fstab
  - remove the remountdev hack, use switchroot --movedev

• Mon Mar 21 2005 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 4.1.12-9mdk

  - fold p1 (iteraid) into p0
  - fix boot from usb drive (#14144)
  - support dmraid as a root device (lvm over dmraid is not yet supported)
  - preliminary support for evms as a root device (needs testing)

• Tue Mar 8 2005 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 4.1.12-8mdk

  - patch 0: some system needs quite large /dev (#14092)

• Tue Mar 1 2005 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 4.1.12-7mdk

  - patch 0: make all boot messages use the same case

• Tue Feb 15 2005 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 4.1.12-6mdk

  - do not increase basesystem size (Stefan van der Eijk)

• Sat Feb 12 2005 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 4.1.12-5mdk

  - patch 0: support udev-051

• Sat Jan 29 2005 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 4.1.12-4mdk

  - patch 0: use a larger tmpfs for /dev like done in udev package (udev-048+)

• Fri Jan 21 2005 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 4.1.12-3mdk

  - patch 1: it821x relaced both it8212 and iteraid

• Fri Nov 5 2004 Gwenole Beauchesne <gbeauchesne@mandrakesoft.com> 4.1.12-2mdk

  - manually fix IT8212 -> iteraid

• Mon Sep 27 2004 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 4.1.12-1mdk

  - merge bits from rh 4.1.12
  - workaround case where you have more than one different scsi controllers,
  and root fs is not on the first.
  - detect non-scsi disk drivers (DAC960, cpqarray, cciss, ...)
  - manpage fixes

• Mon Sep 20 2004 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 4.1.9-4mdk

  - copy udev.conf again, or udev will not work
  - also copy permission file so devices will have correct mode
  - merge p1 into p0

• Thu Sep 16 2004 Christiaan Welvaart <cjw@daneel.dyndns.org> 4.1.9-3mdk

  - patch1: load ieee1394 controller driver(s) and use 5s delay for sbp2

• Thu Sep 9 2004 Frederic Lepied <flepied@mandrakesoft.com> 4.1.9-2mdk

  - don't copy udev.conf to avoid having devices in 600 mode by default

• Tue Sep 7 2004 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 4.1.9-1mdk

  - big merge from redhat's 4.1.9
  initramfs support (NOT TESTED)
  use new mount magic instead of pivot_root (NOT TESTED)
  nash update
  - udev support, without breaking devfs
  - use klibc version of udev tools if available
  - remove handledevfs function (kernel does it anyway)
  - manpage update
  - load usbhid module if we have an usb keyboard and no ps2 keyboards

• Sat Sep 4 2004 Frederic Lepied <flepied@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.24-4mdk

  - remove modprobe loop not needed anymore

• Fri Sep 3 2004 Frederic Lepied <flepied@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.24-3mdk

  - fixed typo in scsi driver function
  - added a fallback for scsi drivers that aren't populating /proc/scsi
  correctly
  - modprobe loop

• Sun Aug 29 2004 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 3.5.24-2mdk

  - rework driver detection
  look deeper for stacked md arrays
  chose only needed scsi controllers
  remove most usb-storage related kludges
  - use stat instead of ls to find major numbers
  - check for modular initrdfs and choke
  - remove the --omit-lvm-modules option
  - other small cleanups

• Sun Aug 29 2004 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 3.5.24-1mdk

  - merge bits from redhat 3.5.24
  fix usb-storage detection with 2.6
  add support for RAID6
  quiet mode for nash
  - internal insmod command, use external insmod only for 2.4 kernels
  - remove mkinitrd-helper, keep only insmod-busybox
  - rework erwan patch, use character classes instead of bare tabs in regexp.
  - use of dietlibc is chosen by the spec file.
  - update manpages with code changes
  - other minor fixes

• Wed Aug 25 2004 Erwan Velu <erwan@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.18-19mdk

  - Patch 5 : A wrong ident in moduledep() brakes the modules
  dependencies on the 2.4 kernel series when you own more
  than 3 dependencies ! It sounds silly but that's real !

• Fri Aug 20 2004 Olivier Blin <blino@mandrake.org> 3.5.18-18mdk

  - add INITRDDSDT321DSDT321 after the dsdt file for 2.6 kernels

• Sun Aug 15 2004 Christiaan Welvaart <cjw@daneel.dyndns.org> 3.5.18-17mdk

  - fix patch4 for 2.4 usb hcd module names in /etc/modprobe.conf

• Sat Aug 14 2004 Christiaan Welvaart <cjw@daneel.dyndns.org> 3.5.18-16mdk

  - patch 4: load usb interface drivers for usb-storage

• Sat Jul 31 2004 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.18-15mdk

  - fix broken boot-from-USB that pixel gratuitously broken in -14mdk (#10471)
  - patch 3: rediff since pixel inserted patch prior w/o bothering checking other
  patches

• Tue Jun 29 2004 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.18-14mdk

  - mkinitrd doesn't add splash by itself anymore
  - conflicts with old bootloader-utils and bootsplash

• Wed Jun 9 2004 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.18-13mdk

  - patch 2: load scsi_mod too for 2.4.x kernels

• Wed Jun 9 2004 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.18-12mdk

  - patch 2: add support for boot from USB for 2.4.x kernels

• Sat May 8 2004 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.18-11mdk

  - merge patch 5 into patch 0 (simplify patch)

• Sat May 8 2004 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.18-10mdk

  - patch 0: do not gratuitously drop root=LABEL=foobar support
  - patch 5:fix root=LABEL=foobar support
  - require a fixed dietlibc in order to have working root=LABEL=foobar

• Sat Apr 10 2004 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.18-9mdk

  - drop patch 4 (merged into simplified patch 0)

• Tue Apr 6 2004 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.18-8mdk

  - patch 4: enable to boot with root on usb

• Sun Apr 4 2004 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 3.5.18-7mdk

  - Fix for broken sprintf in dietlibc
  - Fixed nplanel's changelog

• Wed Mar 24 2004 Frederic Lepied <flepied@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.18-6mdk

  - make the source declaration rpmbuildupdate compatible
  - added --force-usb option
  - source /etc/sysconfig/mkinitrd to be able to set permanent options

• Fri Feb 13 2004 Planel Nicolas <nplanel@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.18-4mdk

  - added --tmpdir

• Thu Feb 5 2004 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.18-3mdk

  - Andrey Borzenkov's patch for modular ide

• Sun Feb 1 2004 Stefan van der Eijk <stefan@eijk.nu> 3.5.18-2mdk

  - fix building without diet (alpha, sparc*, bug 7200)

• Sun Jan 25 2004 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 3.5.18-1mdk

  - updated to 3.5.18 from fedora core
  - translate some modules names when creating a 2.6 initrd on 2.4
  - allow partial activation of root vg with lvm2

• Thu Jan 22 2004 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.5.15.1-1mdk

  - use excellent work from Luca Berra
  - updated to 3.5.15.1 from fedora core
  - rediff all changes
  - fix parsing of modules.dep for 2.6 kernels (Guillaume Cottenceau)
  - do not create root device for lvm system since a bug was fixed in lvm1
  - merge in fix of released 3.4.43-13mdk
  - fix broken behaviour using --splash=foo and --dsdt=bar, thx Michael
  Reinsch (#6849)

• Fri Dec 5 2003 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 3.4.43-10.99.1mdk

  - fixed creation of lvm2 initrd when current kernel is lvm1 (Brian J. Murrell)

• Fri Nov 21 2003 Luca Berra <bluca@vodka.it> 3.4.43-10.99mdk

  - added support for modular ide (Svetoslav Slavtchev)
  - added support for minix initrd
  - added support for romfs initrd
  - added support for cramfs initrd (Oliver Blin)
  - support lvm1 and lvm2 static build
  - handle lvm.conf for lvm2 specific configuration
  - added lvm2 and mdadm support
  - only include md if i need it to mount root
  - misc fixes
  - now uses modules options
  - first stab at reducing the number of forks

• Tue Nov 18 2003 Warly <warly@mandrakesoft.com> 3.4.43-10mdk

  - add initrd name as param to detect-resolution

• Sun Sep 14 2003 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.4.43-9mdk

  - fix error messages when creating initrd for root-on-lvm in devfs mode

• Tue Aug 26 2003 Nicolas Planel <nplanel@mandrakesoft.com> 3.4.43-8mdk

  - add dsdt option in mdkize patch, now you can use your own
  tweaked/fixed dsdt acpi table. (default file /boot/dsdt.aml)

• Tue Aug 12 2003 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.4.43-7mdk

  - mkinitrd -h moves, suggested by houpla:
  (ex: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21-6mdk 2.4.21-6mdk)
  ->
  (ex: mkinitrd /boot/initrd-2.4.21-6mdk.img 2.4.21-6mdk)

• Sat Aug 2 2003 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.4.43-6mdk

  - support 2.5 thx to Andrey Borzenkov :
  - check for kernel version. It is needed to enable build under different
  kernel (where modprobe -c cannot be used). Use either /etc/modules.conf
  or /etc/modprobe.conf
  - parse module-init-tools "install ... /sbin/modprobe ..."; it is not
  foolproof but should do as long as modprobe.conf is kept consistent
  - add insmod-25-DIET directly based on insmod from module-init-tools;
  install it as insmod on non-dietlibc archs if version >= 2.5

• Wed Jul 9 2003 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.4.43-5mdk

  - ignore modules before processing dependencies, to not end up with
  loading usbcore when probeall contains usb-storage (#4160)

• Thu Apr 17 2003 Gwenole Beauchesne <gbeauchesne@mandrakesoft.com> 3.4.43-4mdk

  - use system dietlibc, insmod busybox 0.60.5 on x86-64 too

• Wed Apr 16 2003 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.4.43-3mdk

  - add some buildrequires
  - don't build unneeded grubby

• Fri Apr 11 2003 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.4.43-2mdk

  - fix broken error handling when "mount -o loop" fails (via side-effect,
  this lead to breaking mkinitrd generation during install)

• Fri Apr 4 2003 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.4.43-1mdk

  - merge RH version
  - add automatic modules deps handling (#3614 and so many more..)
  - this makes two good reasons to plank the children

• Wed Feb 19 2003 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-37mdk

  - add dependance info on mptscsih (Patch11)

• Sun Feb 16 2003 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-36mdk

  - taking patch from jose_urena at hotmail.com to fix #1654 (Patch9)
  - following suggestion by Fabio Stumbo , force use
  of /bin/ls to circumvent problems with people aliasing ls with more
  options

• Tue Jan 21 2003 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-35mdk

  - support generation of initrd suitable for a raid system on a non raid
  system thx to Christopher Samuel

• Fri Dec 20 2002 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-34mdk

  - ignore failures when looking for xfs support modules, some recent
  kernels don't have them
  - still compile minilibc with glibc-2.3

• Fri Nov 8 2002 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-33mdk

  - remove useless prefix
  - requires s/fileutils/coreutils/

• Mon Oct 7 2002 Gwenole Beauchesne <gbeauchesne@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-32mdk

  - fix x86-64 support

• Sat Sep 14 2002 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-31mdk

  - workaround kmod suckiness (kmod failed to exec modprobe
  scsi_hostadapter) by loading sd_mod right after the scsi hostadapter

• Fri Aug 9 2002 Warly <warly@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-30mdk

  - add exit 0 at the end not to make make-boot-splash set the exit value

• Wed Jul 31 2002 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-29mdk

  - integrate patch from Brian J. Murrell to allow LVM on /

• Sat Mar 2 2002 Warly <warly@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-28mdk

  - fix error when SPLASH=no

• Tue Feb 19 2002 Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-27mdk

  - Remove the echo 0 of splash screen from here.

• Sat Feb 9 2002 Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-26mdk

  - Add themes support to splash.

• Fri Feb 8 2002 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-25mdk

  - change splash patch (chmou)

• Thu Feb 7 2002 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-24mdk

  - xfs now requires xfs_dmapi instead of pagebuf, so try to find both
  modules (for juan new kernel)

• Wed Feb 6 2002 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-23mdk

  - update splash patch from chmouel

• Thu Jan 31 2002 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-22mdk

  - use mkinitrd-boot-splash.diff from chmouel

• Tue Jan 29 2002 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-21mdk

  - as suggested by Borsenkow Andrej ,
  mount devfs with device "none" for consistency

• Sat Jan 26 2002 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-20mdk

  - use relative symlinks in the initrd, because ls from new fileutils
  produced "No such file or directory" on broken symlinks

• Fri Jan 18 2002 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-19mdk

  - now that find has been moved to /bin we use find again (speed)
  - as suggested on cooker, cleanup even in failure case (using trap)

• Thu Jan 17 2002 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-18mdk

  - exclude modules found with "build" in the path so that we don't end
  up with modules from /lib/modules/*/build/../../../usr/src/*/...

• Thu Jan 10 2002 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-17mdk

  - two small fixes pointed by Reinhard Katzmann
  - overriden rootdev definition
  - broken symlink bin -> bin in /sbin of initrd

• Thu Dec 20 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-16mdk

  - small patch from chmouel on chmouel's patch
  - really can work without /usr by removing one remaining "find" and by
  emulating "wc -w" with a for

• Thu Dec 20 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-15mdk

  - replace `find' (which is in /usr/bin) by a shell-based equivalent
  => mkinitrd should be usable without /usr mounted, now, hopefully
  - fix no-url-tag

• Tue Dec 18 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-14mdk

  - integrate Chmouel's patch [to check that the tmpdir underlying fs is not
  tmpfs nor nfs (since we need lomount capability)]

• Wed Dec 12 2001 Stew Benedict <sbenedict@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-13mdk

  - kernel 2.4.16 brings PPC behavior of real-root-device inline with x86
  - reverse patches for 2.4

• Wed Nov 28 2001 Stew Benedict <sbenedict@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-12mdk

  - merge patches to correct endian problem with real-root-dev mounts at boot

• Thu Nov 15 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-11mdk

  - use Greg Edwards patch to fix problem where SCSI
  modules were not loaded in the correct order (I suck)

• Wed Oct 17 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-10mdk

  - fix obsolete-tag Copyright
  - fix strange-permission

• Sun Sep 23 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-9mdk

  - parses mount options to correctly feed the mount flags and the mount
  options

• Sat Sep 15 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-8mdk

  - integrate gb's patch to support ia64
  - back to the use of insmod-from-busybox on ix86 arch, the 2.4 kernel
  is so large "mkbootdisk" fails in almost all situations now :-(
  - refine Requires:

• Sat Sep 15 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-7mdk

  - argh, rootflags broke root on loopback, fix
  - safety: when a mount with flags fails, try to mount without the flags

• Fri Sep 14 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-6mdk

  - remove duplicate scsi modules for safety

• Fri Sep 14 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-5mdk

  - use mount opts from /etc/fstab for root fs
  - ifneeded -> force need when / is ext3 (for cases when ext3 would be non
  modular); and when / has mount opts
  - try to sync man pages with actual code

• Mon Sep 10 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-4mdk

  - don't keep old bug of using 'ide-cd' module (juan)
  - support new form of "probeall scsi_hostadapter" in modules.conf (pixel)
  - don't load sd_mod and scsi_mod when not really needed (ide-scsi,
  usb-storage, etc) (pixel)
  - support compressed modules with simpler stuff than ZMODULES
  - when / is ext3 and we're on a 2.2 kernel, fallback to ext2
  - don't use pivot_root with a 2.2 kernel, it's not implemented ;p

• Sat Sep 8 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-3mdk

  - support XFS (chmouel)
  - say that our version is "3.1.6-mdk" to tell that it's patched for mdk

• Sat Sep 8 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-2mdk

  - honours quiet mode (again) (needed to fix a RH bug, ouch)

• Thu Sep 6 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.1.6-1mdk

  - synchronize with redhat stuff (for their way of mounting root fs)
  - try to keep all (good) our patches, hope not too much is broken...

• Tue Aug 21 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.0.1-1mdk

  - because of devfs, I need to have my special dev files in another
  directory than /dev, because devfs will shadow my dev files :-(
  (applies to loopback-on-/ and raid-on-/)
  - use IS_IX86 instead of the is_ix86 function

• Sat Aug 4 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 3.0-1mdk

  - we had a very large and silly patch on official 2.7 (385 lines of
  patch on a 450 lines original file), fork to ease maintainance
  - merge RH interesting changes (mkinitrd-3.1.5 from RH)
  - added checks to load the modules i2o_block needs
  - skip errors finding jbd as a module if we're skipping them trying to find
  ext3 so that you can build a kernel with ext3 built-in and still use an
  initrd (MDK: we don't have ext3 yet, but we'll have it soon)
  - prepend /(I|W|E):/ in front of all messages
  - don't let "cat" fail on empty files in verbose mode

• Wed Apr 11 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 2.7-11mdk

  - initrd_helper honours quiet mode
  - rip rh idea to have a fake modprobe in order to remove kmod problems

• Sat Apr 7 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 2.7-10mdk

  - import rh raid autorun stuff in mkinitrd_helper and mkinitrd
  - grab a small rh raid fix (raid5 -> xor)
  - use only one patch

• Sat Mar 24 2001 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.7-9mdk

  - auto-adjust the number of inodes

• Sun Mar 18 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 2.7-8mdk

  - use fix for insmod-busybox-dietlibc

• Sat Mar 17 2001 Guillaume Cottenceau <gc@mandrakesoft.com> 2.7-7mdk

  - use my own smaller code rather than sash+insmod.static for ix86

• Tue Mar 6 2001 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.7-6mdk

  - compute the size really needed for initrd

• Mon Mar 5 2001 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.7-5mdk

  - fix always making an initrd (ifneeded broken)

• Fri Mar 2 2001 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.7-4mdk

  - fix last patch

• Wed Feb 28 2001 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.7-3mdk

  - enable-use-of-gziped-modules.patch

• Mon Feb 12 2001 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.7-2mdk

  - add require mktemp >= 1.5-9mdk (for option -d)

• Fri Dec 22 2000 Geoffrey Lee <snailtalk@mandrakesoft.com> 2.7-1mdk

  - new and shiny source.

• Wed Nov 29 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.6-2mdk

  - fix typo patch. Still need a new mktemp that handles -d

• Sun Nov 26 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.6-1mdk

  - new version
  - patch for case of no scsi needed and scsi_mod is in module

• Thu Aug 24 2000 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 2.5-2mdk

  - bug fix

• Tue Aug 22 2000 Thierry Vignaud <tvignaud@mandrakesoft.com> 2.5-1mdk

  - update for hackkernel (new modules layout)
  - remove exclusiveos:linux (rms'll be happy)
  - make it noarch

• Sat Jul 29 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.4.3-3mdk

  - modified the mdk patch: don't do "insmod the.o || insmod -f the.o" because
  sash doesn't handle it :(

• Thu Jul 20 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.4.3-2mdk

  - BM

• Mon Jun 26 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.4.3-1mdk

  - merge with redhat (mainly modules.conf by default)

• Fri Jun 2 2000 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>

  - build on ia64
  - bump up initrd size on ia64
  - modules.confiscation, /usr/man -> /usr/share/man

• Fri May 26 2000 Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.3.2-16mdk

  - Thanks my god initrd work on alpha !!!.

• Wed May 10 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.3.2-15mdk

  - add possibility to modules to ignore via env var IGNOREMODS

• Thu May 4 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.3.2-14mdk

  - patch for skipping usb-storage

• Wed Apr 19 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.3.2-13mdk

  - add handling of non-ext2 root filesytems (again :()

• Tue Apr 18 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.3.2-12mdk

  - insmod -f instead of insmod

• Sun Mar 26 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.3.2-11mdk

  - new group

• Mon Mar 20 2000 John Buswell <johnb@mandrakesoft.com> 2.3.2-10mdk

  - Added ppc and k7 arch
  - Fixed bzipping of man pages

• Tue Mar 14 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.3.2-9mdk

  - do not require ash.static but sash
  - add requires sash >= 3.4

• Tue Mar 14 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com> 2.3.2-8mdk

  - add loopback handling

• Fri Jan 7 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com>

  - fix *buggy* grep scsi_hostadapter on conf.modules

• Tue Jan 4 2000 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com>

  - fix to skip ide-scsi.o (overkill :)

• Wed Dec 29 1999 Pixel <pixel@mandrakesoft.com>

  - fix to skip ppa.o and imm.o
  - fix a typo

• Wed Oct 20 1999 Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>

  - 2.3.2.

• Wed Apr 14 1999 Chmouel Boudjnah <chmouel@mandrakesoft.com>

  - Upgrade to 2.0.

• Sun Apr 11 1999 Bernhard Rosenkraenzer <bero@linux-mandrake.com>

  - Mandrake adaptions
  - bzip2 man/info pages
  - add de locale

• Fri Feb 26 1999 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - updated description

• Tue Jan 12 1999 Matt Wilson <msw@redhat.com>

  - Ignore the absence of scsi modules, include them if they are there, but
  don't complain if they are not.
  - changed --no-scsi-modules to --omit-scsi-modules (as it should have been)

• Fri Nov 6 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

  - import from ultrapenguin 1.1.

• Wed Oct 21 1998 Jakub Jelinek <jj@ultra.linux.cz>

  - fix for combined sparc/sparc64 insmod, also pluto module is really
  fc4:soc:pluto and we don't look at deps, so special case it.

• Sun Aug 30 1998 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - replaced --needs-scsi-mods (which is now the default) with
  --omit-scsi-mods

• Sat Aug 8 1998 Jeff Johnson <jbj@redhat.com>

  - correct obscure regex/shell interaction (hardwires tabs on line 232)

• Tue Jan 13 1998 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - added 'make archive' rule to Makefile
  - rewrote install procedure for more robust version handling
  - be smarter about grabbing options from /etc/conf.modules

• Tue Oct 21 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - made it use /bin/ash.static

• Thu Apr 17 1997 Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>

  - Only use '-s' to install binaries if /usr/bin/strip is present.
  - Use an image size of 2500 if binaries can't be stripped (1500 otherwise)
  - Don't use "mount -o loop" anymore -- losetup the proper devices manually
  - Requires losetup, e2fsprogs

• Thu Mar 13 1997 Michael K. Johnson <johnsonm@redhat.com>

  - Fixed a bug in parsing options.
  - Changed to use a build tree, then copy the finished tree into the
  image after it is built.
  - Added patches derived from ones written by Christian Hechelmann which
  add an option to put the kernel version number at the end of the module
  name and use install -s to strip binaries on the fly.