[BusyBox] Another modprobe patch
Glenn McGrath
bug1 at iinet.net.au
Sat Aug 14 12:53:59 UTC 2004
On Wed, 11 Aug 2004 23:21:17 -0700
Mike Castle <dalgoda at ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>
> It turns out the insmod does not need full path to work. So, to make
> our lives easier, get rid of mod_strcmp and essentially use $(basename
> /path/to/module/foo.o .o).
>
> This simplifies logic by having the code that strips the extention in
> only one place. It also reduced the size of the .o file by 628 bytes,
> and memory usage by 15k, on my modules.dep which is 111k in size.
At this stage i think its better to maintain compatability with the
official modprobe, and keep the paths. There may be scritps that
parse the output of modprobe for some reason.
> I see one minor difference between busybox's modprobe and the real
> one:
>
> If two modules are given to modprobe, the second one should be
> discarded. With busyboxes, it's added as an argument to the last
> insmod.
This should be fixed.
Glenn
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