[BusyBox] modprobe equivalent...or a dream?

[Richard June]

As far as I know, busybox doesn't have that yet.(am I right Erik?)
however, I just finished up a patch that appears to let GNU modprobe and 
GNU depmod function w/ busybox insmod and rmmod. All it does is accept 
the -L option w/out complaining. wanna give it a go and see if it works?

Tom Cameron wrote:

> Hello all,
> 	I am writing to you again, asking about the busybox utilities.  This
> time, I am wondering if there is a 'modprobe' equivalent.  For those that
> don't know what modprobe is, it is essentially the same thing as insmod,
> except that it checks module depends. so that it can load any module that
> the requested module may depend on.  In other words...if I insmod vfat and I
> haven't already insmod'ed dosfs (or msdosfs...which ever it is)
> support...the module will fail.  Modprobe, however, will realize that the
> vfat module depends on the dosfs (or msdosfs) module...and will load it
> before loading vfat.  If there isn't, it's okay.  I can simply add a
> disclaimer to the user informing them that they need to load any
> dependencies BEFORE loading a module.  Thanks in advance for any help, and
> thanks for taking the time to try to understand what the HECK I'm asking.  ;
> )
> 
> --
> Thomas Cameron
> Network Technician / Operations Specialist
> St. Mary's Bank
> 
> 
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