problems with modprobe on kernel 2.4

[Guenter]

Hi Denys,
Denys Vlasenko schrieb:
> Yes. For example, noticing something wrong here?
> 
>         m_name = xstrdup(bb_basename(m_filename));
>         *strrchr(m_name, '.') = 0;
> 
> I just tested. It does segfault.
> 
>> and does 
>> not load the whole file; instead it tries to load only the parts
>> of the file it needs. This makes changing the code to use the
>> "smart API for .gz files" trickier. No one has had interest to
>> do it yet.
> 
> But it does not look to be _too_ hard. bb_init_module_24()
> is an entry point to 2.4 module loading. It opens a file.
> Then file descriptor gets passed _only_ to obj_load()
> and obj_load_progbits(). Those only ever seek and read from it.
> 
> By replacing "int fd" param with "void *image, size_t image_size"
> pair and passing it instead, we can work on in-memory images.
> Unpacking and reading of .gz modules is _extremely_ easy too:
> 
> size_t len = MAXINT(ssize_t);
> void *image = xmalloc_open_zipped_read_close(filename, &len);
> 
> That's it.
> 
> Care to make it work, Guenter?
> 
> (If you do, fetch svn tree, in older trees it was using
> FILE-based i/o, for no good reason)
Ok, I will give it a try and see how far I make progress...
thanks for looking at it and for your suggestions!

I'll be back with either some new probs, or something working :)

Guenter.