> > > With a nice clean-up of modules, I can forsee a tree like this:
> > >
> > > /lib/modules/boot/* (in root.lrp)
> > > /lib/modules/2.2.16/* (in a modules.lrp)
> > > /lib/modules/2.2.19/* (in an alternate modules.lrp)
>
> > Thanks. I play so much with LRP, I forget about stuff like modprobe.
We
> > should probably migrate towards the more conventional directory
structure,
> > to avoid unnecessary confusion, if nothing else.
>
> Also, this kernel versioning means that you can load multiple kernel
> version modules, and not get them tangled. However, busybox insmod
> doesn't honor the traditional order; it does (last I checked) a form of
> this:
>
> MOD=${1%%.o}.o
> insmod $(eval find /lib/modules -name "$MOD")
>
> Rather than the more interesting and compatable:
>
> insmod $(eval find /lib/modules/`uname -r` /lib/modules/2.2 /lib/modules
> -name "$MOD")
>
> (did that make sense?)
Yup...looks like it could be time for a shell alias :)
> > I've seen this done before. I think a trick like this might be good for
an
> > install script (when creating a modules package), but I don't think we
need
> > to extend the module loading code to the running system. In addition to
the
> > extra script overhead, you've got to keep a modules.dep file around.
Also,
> > the modules.dep file is pretty human-readable...maybe we should just
create
> > this file and add a couple notes in a readme or howto (or comments in
> > /etc/modules) on interpereting it...
>
> I wonder if it would not do, to create a script to further read the
> modules.dep file, and create a file listing ONLY dependencies with no
> paths: this file would very likely be very short - and by its nature,
> very accurate. Then you could refuse to load module X if module Y is
> not yet loaded (via judicious use of lsmod and grep).
>
> Let me take a quickie stab at it:
>
> From a configuration file:
>
> modX: modY modZ
> modA: modB
>
> ...script:
>
<snip>
>
> ...well?
Hmm...a POSIXness modprobe? :)
Charles Steinkuehler
http://lrp.steinkuehler.net
http://c0wz.steinkuehler.net (lrp.c0wz.com mirror)
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