[BusyBox] modprobe equivalent...or a dream?

Tom Cameron TCameron at stmarysbank.com
Wed Jan 10 21:53:53 UTC 2001


Hello all,
	I am writing to you again, asking about the busybox utilities.  This
time, I am wondering if there is a 'modprobe' equivalent.  For those that
don't know what modprobe is, it is essentially the same thing as insmod,
except that it checks module depends. so that it can load any module that
the requested module may depend on.  In other words...if I insmod vfat and I
haven't already insmod'ed dosfs (or msdosfs...which ever it is)
support...the module will fail.  Modprobe, however, will realize that the
vfat module depends on the dosfs (or msdosfs) module...and will load it
before loading vfat.  If there isn't, it's okay.  I can simply add a
disclaimer to the user informing them that they need to load any
dependencies BEFORE loading a module.  Thanks in advance for any help, and
thanks for taking the time to try to understand what the HECK I'm asking.  ;
)

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Thomas Cameron
Network Technician / Operations Specialist
St. Mary's Bank






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