custom kernels and heterogeneous hardware

[Emon]

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On 06/22/2006 01:33 AM, Ben Scott wrote:
>  Red Hat makes their kernel *very* modular.  It's often the case that
> a module needs to be loaded just to read the root disk -- and the root
> disk is where the modules are.  So Red Hat uses an initial RAM disk
> (initrd), which the boot loader (LILO, GRUB) loads along with the
> kernel image.  The initrd contains the modules needed to bootstrap the
> root disk.  The initrd is built on the local system, whenever a new
> kernel is installed.  Red Hat provides a tool, mkinitrd, which scans
> /etc/modules.conf, figures out which modules are needed to boot the
> system, and builds the initrd for you.
> 

Hi

I hope I am not hijacking the thread, but since you guys were already on
the topic, I hope nobody will mind if I pop in a few question  :-)

I am newbie running Slackware10.2 with a custom compiled 2.6.13 kernel.
I was also hoping to make modular kernel, my root file system is
reiserfs, I was wondering if I I compile the reiserfs driver as module &
 add the following lines to "/etc/rc.d/rc.modules" will it work??

/sbin/modprobe ide-disk
/sbin/modprobe reiserfs

Thanks
Emon
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