depmod

Bernhard Fischer rep.dot.nop at gmail.com
Mon May 26 17:06:51 UTC 2008


On Mon, May 26, 2008 at 08:13:35PM +0400, Vladimir Dronnikov wrote:
>Hi, Bernhard!
>
>>>
>> >> As IMO converting its logic to C would result in more bloaty code than
>> 1262 bytes (its length)
>>
>>
>> This is simply not correct.
>
>
>You reduced the depmod
>logic to just dump "depends=xxx" strings for each module. If the things were
>so simple BB would have depmod invented year 100 BC. Did you try to

Not really. Up until now, everybody pregenerates the modules.dep on the
host (if they run modules at all). AFAICS here was just no urgent need
to have a depmod for the target and nobody sat down and implemented it.
That simple :)

>use your generated
>modprobe.conf to load something like a sound module? Did you succeed?

No, i didn't. Does it work? If not, what does not work?



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