boot failures due to busybox-1.23 modprobe -a

Denys Vlasenko vda.linux at googlemail.com
Thu Jan 15 02:06:06 UTC 2015


On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 1:50 AM, Isaac Dunham <ibid.ag at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 07:24:29PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
>> On Mon, Jan 12, 2015 at 3:37 PM, Natanael Copa <ncopa at alpinelinux.org> wrote:
>> > Seems like that fixed the depmod issue but modprobe appears to be
>> > totally broke.
>>
>> I'm sorry, but this is hardly a proper bug report. Can you do better?
>>
>> I just tried building defconfig bbox 1.23.0 + patch, and modprobing
>> a module. It worked.
>> It's not like "modprobe is so broken it's trivially to reproduce it".
>
> defconfig is modprobe-small, not full modprobe/insmod/...; Alpine Linux
> uses full (ie, turn off "simplified modutils").

Ok, I reproduced it, and updated the patch. Simple "modprobe MODNAME"
works for me now, "modprobe devname:snd/timer" (alias with a slash)
works too.

Let me know whether you still see a problem


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