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

Matt Kraai kraai at alumni.carnegiemellon.edu
Fri Jan 12 17:22:00 UTC 2001


On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 11:25:24AM -0500, Richard June wrote:
> Matt Kraai wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 10:39:19AM -0500, Richard June wrote:
> > 
> >> -L, --lock            Prevent simultaneous loads of the same module
> >> 
> >> I think I mentioned this before, insmod appears to verify that only one 
> >> instance of the module is loaded, making this not an option.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks.  Isn't this trying to prevent some race condition when
> > loading the module, not to prevent an already loaded module from
> > being inserted twice?
> > 
> Uhhhhh... I dunno, that's not what the help says, although it probably 
> isn't the first time help has lied. :-)
> at any rate it worked with ppp.o

I'm not sure what it does, I just want to ensure that ignoring it
won't have any adverse side effects.

Matt





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