[BusyBox 0000889]: modprobe won't use ' * ' symbols modules.alias

[Yann E. MORIN]

Bernhard,
All,

On Wednesday 31 May 2006 225, Bernhard Fischer wrote:
> On Wed, May 31, 2006 at 10:28:31PM +0200, Yann E. MORIN wrote:
> >Yes, use of star-pattern is highly used throughout the modules.alias file.
> >- Would this really be wanted that busybox implements this?
> and if it adds less then -- let's say -- 512b.
s/then/than/  # OK, beat me wherever you find any mistake I make :-)
s/512b/512B/  # Please give me 512B, not 64B! ;-)

> Put short, i'm all for it. Go ahead, please.

OK, I will have a look tomorrow evening. After a quick look at the source,
it should in fact be quite easy (not trivial, just easy) to implement such a
pattern matching with your 512-byte limit (Mind you that I might take it as
a personnal challenge to try the 512-bit limit! ;-) )

I'll do it before I try to shoe-horn linked lists into modprobe, because it
makes no sense to do so until the doubly-linked lists are available...

Regards,
Yann E. MORIN.

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