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Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,967

[Solved] prevent dkms from regenerating initramfs

I do use one OOT kernel module : vhba (required by cdemu-daemon ).

Until now I had the vhba-module package , but lately I have booted several times to linux-lts for testing things.
I installed vhba-dkms and found to my surprise after compiling the modules the initramfs is regenerated by mkinitcpio .

Since the vhba kernel module is only needed (atleast for my usecase) after booting regenerating initramfs is unnecessary .

Is there a possibilty to stop triggering initrams fs regeneration after dkms has compiled vhba against installed kernels ?

Last edited by Lone_Wolf (2025-06-21 13:21:42)

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tekstryder

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Registered: 2013-02-14

Posts: 516

Re: [Solved] prevent dkms from regenerating initramfs

Never tried this, but I suppose you could get rid of the trigger target

Target = usr/src/*/dkms.conf

from /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/90-mkinitcpio-install.hook?

Lone_Wolf

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From: Netherlands, Europe

Registered: 2005-10-04

Posts: 14,967

Re: [Solved] prevent dkms from regenerating initramfs

Looked into that hook and that target is indeed what triggers the regeneration .

I copied /usr/share/libalpm/hooks/90-mkinitcpio-install.hook to /etc/pacman.d/hooks and removed that trigger from the copy .
re-installing vhba-mdule-dkms didn't trigger mkinitcpio regeneration, so it appears to be working.

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