Does mkinitcpio honor /etc/initramfs-tools/modules?

[hjr265]

So I noticed that the setup.sh script adds this following file from jakeday's repository:

• https://github.com/jakeday/linux-surface/blob/master/root/etc/initramfs-tools/modules

And, I wasn't sure if this was actually being used by mkinitcpio in Arch Linux. I entered some random words as module names in the file, and ran mkinitcpio. It ran without errors.

Then, copied the module names to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf (in MODULES=()). And ran mkinitpcio again, and this time it included those modules (except "hid_generic", which it couldn't find).

Could it mean we were missing out on some fix by Jakeday?

[dmhacker]

I'll take a look at this.

[Ghabry]

Thanks, adding the modules and doing mkinicpio fixed the non-working touchscreen on my Surface Pro 4 👍

[dmhacker]

Fixed! Add an option to copy over modules from /etc/initramfs-tools/modules to /etc/mkinitcpio.conf and then execute a mkinitcpio rebuild. See 413cb7d. I'll make a separate post explaining the new touchscreen fixes. Thanks for the help.