Nvme kernel drivers missing from initramfs

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It seems Fedora doesn’t include the nvme nvme-core nvme-keyring nvme-auth modules in the startup ramdisk unless there’s an nvme device present during the initial OS install.

This is the only distro I’ve ever encountered where you can’t swap out a SATA drive for an NVMe, power up the host, and have it simply just work. I’m curious if anyone knows what’s behind the decision to omit.

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I’d expect it’s because dracut is run in host only mode by default - from the man page:

hostonly="{yes|no}"
           Host-only mode: Install only what is needed for booting the
           local host instead of a generic host and generate
           host-specific configuration (default=yes).
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