bb-1.13 modutils-24.c

Timo Teräs timo.teras at iki.fi
Sun Nov 23 12:13:16 UTC 2008


Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> On Wednesday 12 November 2008 23:14, Harald Küthe wrote:
>>> / Hello list,
>> />/ 
>> />/ it looks like we need this patch again but now for modutils-24.c:
>> />/ http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/busybox/modutils/insmod.c?rev=23277&r1=23271&r2=23277 <http://busybox.net/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/trunk/busybox/modutils/insmod.c?rev=23277&r1=23271&r2=23277>
>>
>> /Well, this was not all we need about the insmod vector-alloc issue.
>> I backported the needed parts of the 1.12.2 insmod.c into modutils-24.c 
>> both for the vector changes as well as for the module searching.
>>
>> See attached patch, it works for me but it is only roughly tested.
>> Please review!
> 
> I applied trivial parts of it, thanks.
> 
> Can you explain the rest?
> It is in attached patch. Seems to be a bit big,
> I'd like to have the explanation what this change does.

It's about searching the modules from /lib/modules. You actually seem to
have an old patch, since there was a newer patch putting that same code
to different place; however, I rewrote that into something smaller.
See my earlier mail.

- Timo




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