[PATCH] modprobe and multiple options to module

Yann E. MORIN yann.morin.1998 at anciens.enib.fr
Mon Nov 14 21:39:03 UTC 2005


Hello all!

There is still no support for modprobe to handle more than one option passed
to modules, neither in trunk, nor in stable-1.0x.

This really is a problem in many setups (quite a number of modules await more
than one option).

I posted a while backed a patch that adds option parsing to modprobe, which
eventually could be used as command line parsing in shells (as to Rob's demand).

I re-diffed it against HEAD, and updates the help somewhat. I know this patch
is quite ugly and biggish (see comments in help), but I think we really need to
make modprobe understand that feature.

Do you think that this patch could be incorporated in trunk and/or stable while
we wait for a more adequate rewrite? If not, what is the reason?

Again, I'm open to comments. :-)

Regards,
Yann.

PS. two patches, one for trunk, and one for stable-1.0x attached.

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