Changes re: MODPROBE_SMALL

Olivier Brunel jjk at jjacky.com
Mon Jan 30 21:58:23 UTC 2017


Hi,

So something changed in 1.26.1 which at first thought was a bug, but
seems it is in fact the intended behavior. Now, selecting
MODPROBE_SMALL will not result in any applet available, as one needs to
also select which applets are wanted.

So whereas a config with only MODPROBE_SMALL used to give us modprobe,
lsmod, insmod, rmmod & depmod it now gives nothing on its own. This is
meant to make applets individually selectable it seems (unless I got
it wrong), but certainly worthy of notice.

Also, the help text (for MODPROBE_SMALL) might then need to be
adjusted a bit, because as it is now (i.e. unchanged from before) it
still states that it will give a modprobe, as well as insmod, rmmod &
depmod (not sure why lsmod isn't listed here?).

But in fact it won't, it's now merely an option of the type of applet
we'll get (so maybe better under the "options common to multiple
modutils" banner?), but to get any applet one needs to also select which
applet(s) one wants. Otherwise you might not notice, try to boot and
w/out a modprobe things don't work as well :p

Cheers,


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