[BusyBox] GNU Modprobe

[Matt Kraai]

On Tue, Jan 23, 2001 at 11:49:11AM -0500, Richard June wrote:
> I posted this before, but didn't much in the way of yea/nay.
> This allows GNU modprobe to function properly with bb->insmod. 
> bb->insmod is currently missing the -L option, which near as I can tell 
> gets done by default, much the same way -k was the default for df, du 
> and ls.
> According to 'insmod --help' -L does this 'Prevent simultaneous loads of 
> the same module' and from my preliminary testing using msdos and vfat. 
> Mr. Cameron, I believe you were the other one that needed this to function?

So I finally downloaded the modutils source to see what -L does.
It flock's the module being loaded.  Does anyone know if this is
still necessary, or if it can be safely eliminated?

Matt