From: "'Quirin Gylstorff' via isar-users" <isar-users@googlegroups.com>
To: isar-users@googlegroups.com
Subject: [PATCH] dracut-module: add DRACUT_FORCE_DRIVERS
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2026 10:48:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20261019084817.399159-1-quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com> (raw)
Some drivers are not loaded by udev in the initrd, e.g. watchdog drivers
which have to be serviced by systemd before the root file system is
mounted. dracut provides force_drivers for this, but it is a global
option.
Add DRACUT_FORCE_DRIVERS to the dracut-module class. The listed drivers
are installed regardless of hostonly mode and loaded early via
rd.driver.pre, same as dracut's force_drivers, but only if the module
is part of the initrd. The module depends on kernel-modules, which
evaluates rd.driver.pre.
Signed-off-by: Quirin Gylstorff <quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com>
---
doc/user_manual.md | 5 +++++
meta/classes-recipe/dracut-module.bbclass | 14 ++++++++++++++
.../dracut-module/files/module-setup.sh.tmpl | 10 ++++++++++
3 files changed, 29 insertions(+)
diff --git a/doc/user_manual.md b/doc/user_manual.md
index a134903d..09ac080b 100644
--- a/doc/user_manual.md
+++ b/doc/user_manual.md
@@ -1877,6 +1877,11 @@ It is controlled by following variables:
- `DRACUT_REQUIRED_BINARIES` defines the binaries required by the module.
- `DRACUT_MODULE_DEPENDENCIES` defines dependencies to other dracut modules.
+- `DRACUT_FORCE_DRIVERS` defines kernel drivers which are installed into the
+initrd regardless of hostonly mode and loaded early via `rd.driver.pre`,
+like dracut's `force_drivers` option. It adds a dependency to the dracut
+module `kernel-modules`. A machine can set it with
+`DRACUT_FORCE_DRIVERS:pn-<recipe> = "lpc_ich iTCO_wdt"`.
- `DRACUT_MODULE_NO` defines the module number which prefixes the module name
to determine the execution order. The default is `50`.
- `DRACUT_MODULE_NAME` defines the name of the module which is used to install the
diff --git a/meta/classes-recipe/dracut-module.bbclass b/meta/classes-recipe/dracut-module.bbclass
index 6fce979a..6d32a4ac 100644
--- a/meta/classes-recipe/dracut-module.bbclass
+++ b/meta/classes-recipe/dracut-module.bbclass
@@ -22,6 +22,9 @@ DRACUT_MODULE_PATH = "${D}/usr/lib/dracut/modules.d/${DRACUT_MODULE_NO}${DRACUT_
DRACUT_REQUIRED_BINARIES ??= ""
DRACUT_MODULE_DEPENDENCIES ??= ""
+# Kernel drivers installed regardless of hostonly and loaded early via
+# rd.driver.pre (same semantics as dracut's force_drivers)
+DRACUT_FORCE_DRIVERS ??= ""
DRACUT_CHECK_CONTENT_FILE_NAME ??= ""
DRACUT_DEPENDS_CONTENT_FILE_NAME ??= ""
DRACUT_CMDLINE_CONTENT_FILE_NAME ??= ""
@@ -71,7 +74,18 @@ TEMPLATE_FILES:append = " \
TEMPLATE_VARS:append = " \
DRACUT_REQUIRED_BINARIES \
DRACUT_MODULE_DEPENDENCIES \
+ DRACUT_FORCE_DRIVERS \
+ DRACUT_MODULE_NAME \
"
+
+python do_validate_dracut_force_drivers() {
+ import re
+ for drv in (d.getVar('DRACUT_FORCE_DRIVERS') or '').split():
+ if not re.fullmatch(r'[A-Za-z0-9_-]+', drv):
+ bb.fatal(f"Invalid driver name '{drv}' in DRACUT_FORCE_DRIVERS")
+}
+addtask validate_dracut_force_drivers before do_transform_template after do_patch
+
python do_add_additional_dracut_configuration() {
workdir = os.path.normpath(d.getVar('WORKDIR'))
module_setup = d.getVar('DRACUT_MODULE_SETUP')
diff --git a/meta/recipes-initramfs/dracut-module/files/module-setup.sh.tmpl b/meta/recipes-initramfs/dracut-module/files/module-setup.sh.tmpl
index b38ae50c..9fc5af93 100644
--- a/meta/recipes-initramfs/dracut-module/files/module-setup.sh.tmpl
+++ b/meta/recipes-initramfs/dracut-module/files/module-setup.sh.tmpl
@@ -15,11 +15,16 @@ check() {
# Module dependency requirements.
depends() {
echo "${DRACUT_MODULE_DEPENDENCIES}"
+ # rd.driver.pre is evaluated by the kernel-modules module
+ [ -z "${DRACUT_FORCE_DRIVERS}" ] || echo "kernel-modules"
# ISAR_DRACUT_DEPENDS
return 0
}
installkernel() {
+ if [ -n "${DRACUT_FORCE_DRIVERS}" ]; then
+ hostonly='' instmods -c ${DRACUT_FORCE_DRIVERS} || return 1
+ fi
# ISAR_DRACUT_KERNELINSTALL
return 0
}
@@ -38,5 +43,10 @@ install() {
exit 1
fi
done
+ for driver in ${DRACUT_FORCE_DRIVERS}; do
+ mkdir -p "$initdir/etc/cmdline.d"
+ echo "rd.driver.pre=$driver" >> \
+ "$initdir/etc/cmdline.d/20-force-drivers-${DRACUT_MODULE_NAME}.conf"
+ done
# ISAR_DRACUT_INSTALL
}
--
2.55.0
--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "isar-users" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to isar-users+unsubscribe@googlegroups.com.
To view this discussion visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/isar-users/20261019084817.399159-1-quirin.gylstorff%40siemens.com.
next reply other threads:[~2026-10-19 8:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-10-19 8:48 'Quirin Gylstorff' via isar-users [this message]
2026-10-22 14:26 ` Zhihang Wei
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20261019084817.399159-1-quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com \
--to=isar-users@googlegroups.com \
--cc=quirin.gylstorff@siemens.com \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox