?????: modprobe woes

[Vladimir Dronnikov]

>
>
> You still don't get it! I want a module-init-tools compatible! There is
> no point considering an alternate format for speeding things up, since
> I don't want one. I can make module-init-tools compatible modprobe that
> performs fast enough.
>



>
> And no, I DO NOT WANT modules.dep.bb.
>
>
My! Who pushes you to? I'm trying to explain the reasons of developing
modprobe-small and point out what may be shared.


>
> And as Tito pointed, you usually want to run depmod manually anyway. Your
> modprobe cannot know if new modules were inserted without time penalty.
>

No modprobe can do that, right? But both could recreate their config when
the system is idle via, say, inotify notification.

The only reason I can see for modprobe-small is if it's considerable smaller
> (as in kilobytes)


Yes, ten Kb for parsing I consider bloat. Don't you?


> and you have closed box


No. I just try to reduce external codebase dependencies of my system.

-- 
Vladimir
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