Why does kvm's initrd get rebuilt every time when adding extra_modules prameter?

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Issue

  • Why does kvm's initrd get rebuilt every time when adding extra_modules prameter? For example:
# grep extra_modules /etc/kdump.conf
extra_modules ata_piix sr_mod sd_mod

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
  • kexec-tools

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