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authorLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-03-03 09:33:34 +0100
committerLudovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org>2018-03-03 09:41:21 +0100
commiteac026e5c80caae88a6cef317a46007dca343578 (patch)
treea5aa55267a87e3c53b626960a14f837539521da5 /doc/guix.texi
parentf850e0da8e56b8e38b0a6c49f4c0618f16c8c572 (diff)
downloadguix-eac026e5c80caae88a6cef317a46007dca343578.tar.gz
linux-initrd: Add virtio modules to '%base-initrd-modules'.
Fixes a regression in installation tests, whereby 'guix system init'
would report that virtio modules are missing for the target devices.
In practice virtio modules were always available since 'base-initrd' was
always called with #:virtio? #t.  This commit simply moves them to
'%base-initrd-modules' so that 'guix system' knows they're available.

Reported by Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org> at
<https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=30629#112>.

* gnu/system/linux-initrd.scm (default-initrd-modules): Add virtio
modules.
(base-initrd): Remove #:virtio? and 'virtio-modules'.
* gnu/system/vm.scm (expression->derivation-in-linux-vm)
(system-qemu-image, virtualized-operating-system): Remove uses of
 #:virtio?.
* doc/guix.texi (Initial RAM Disk): Update 'base-initrd' doc.
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diff --git a/doc/guix.texi b/doc/guix.texi
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--- a/doc/guix.texi
+++ b/doc/guix.texi
@@ -19893,18 +19893,18 @@ to it are lost.
 
 @deffn {Monadic Procedure} base-initrd @var{file-systems} @
        [#:mapped-devices '()] [#:qemu-networking? #f] [#:volatile-root? #f]@
-       [#:virtio? #t] [#:extra-modules '()]
-Return a monadic derivation that builds a generic initrd.  @var{file-systems} is
-a list of file systems to be mounted by the initrd like for @code{raw-initrd}.
-@var{mapped-devices}, @var{qemu-networking?} and @var{volatile-root?}
-also behaves as in @code{raw-initrd}.
+       [#:linux-modules '()]
+Return a monadic derivation that builds a generic initrd, with kernel
+modules taken from @var{linux}.  @var{file-systems} is a list of file-systems to be
+mounted by the initrd, possibly in addition to the root file system specified
+on the kernel command line via @code{--root}.  @var{mapped-devices} is a list of device
+mappings to realize before @var{file-systems} are mounted.
 
-When @var{virtio?} is true, load additional modules so that the
-initrd can be used as a QEMU guest with para-virtualized I/O drivers.
+@var{qemu-networking?} and @var{volatile-root?} behaves as in @code{raw-initrd}.
 
 The initrd is automatically populated with all the kernel modules necessary
-for @var{file-systems} and for the given options.  However, additional kernel
-modules can be listed in @var{extra-modules}.  They will be added to the initrd, and
+for @var{file-systems} and for the given options.  Additional kernel
+modules can be listed in @var{linux-modules}.  They will be added to the initrd, and
 loaded at boot time in the order in which they appear.
 @end deffn