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TheSaint

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Registered: 2007-08-19

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autodetect in mkinitcpio, what does it?

Hello,

I'm a bit confused about the use of autodetect in mkinitcpio. Does it means that will bring all the modules which are found on the computer host?
If I have a portable installation, should I remove the autodetect hook? In order to release any particular hardware dependency?

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ataraxia

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From: Pittsburgh

Registered: 2007-05-06

Posts: 1,553

Re: autodetect in mkinitcpio, what does it?

Read /usr/lib/initcpio/install/autodetect . That's the actual code that does it.

TheSaint

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From: my computer

Registered: 2007-08-19

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Re: autodetect in mkinitcpio, what does it?

As I could interpret it seems that autodetect will bring in all modules that are find on the host machine. Therefore for portable installation is not adviceable to use it.
Thanks for the point.

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