Bastian was talking on IRC about dropping the modutils patch from busybox, which apparently is quite large. This would mean we'd lose lsmod.
There are currently two components using lsmod:
./hw-detect/hw-detect.sh:347: ! lsmod | grep -q ^yenta_socket; then
./installation-report/report-hw:29:lsmod 2>&1 | addinfo lsmod
So we'd either need to modify those or add lsmod back in. I feel
that having lsmod available is also nice for users for debugging.
For adding lsmod back in there are two options:
- add it in modutils-basic udeb (size of /bin/lsmod: 5648)
- add the script below in debian-installer-utils which reproduces
the output of lsmod, except for flags
If I run the script on my laptop, diff is clean with real lsmod.
One thing would need to be added: for pre-2.5.48 kernels the script should
just 'cat /proc/modules' instead, but that should be easy enough.
Bastian: please let us know if you intend to go ahead with the removal of
modutils from busybox.
Comments on the options for replacement and the script welcome.
FYI: the official lsmod source uses:
printf("%-20s%8lu%4ld ", m->name, m->size, m->usecount);
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#! /bin/sh -e
if [ -r /proc/modules ]; then
echo "Module Size Used by"
sed "s:^\(.*\)..Live.*$:\1:" /proc/modules |
while read module size usecount rest; do
printf "%-20s%8i %s %s\n" $module $size $usecount
"$rest"
done
else
echo "Opening /proc/modules: No such file or directory" 1>&2
exit 1
fi
exit 0
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