mdev

[Vladimir Dronnikov]

>
> I propose to use "mdev -<some_other_letter>".
>

OK. Let mdev -S := mdev -s + mdev -m, where mdev -m scans for
/sys/devices/.../modalias. Let mdev -u mimics udev slow approach: to
push "add" to any uevent file it finds. Let new options be
configurable.
Do we agree with that?

>> Current modprobe is happy with such arguments. We don't need any
>> additional parsing.
>
> Good, that makes it rather simple thing to do.

Please, take a look at the recent patch. I placed modprobe's
spawn_and_wait into the branch where firmware is loaded. If you find
it safe, the call can be moved out of SEQ fuser, so we won't need
fork, just BB_EXECVP would be sufficient. Moreover, we could directly
call modprobe_main() (if ENABLE_MODPROBE is configured), since I find
no reasons for BB people to prefer vanilla modprobe over BB's one.

Regards,
--
Vladimir