Hello Erich Alexm list
This part of the script comes from a time that insmod was not so flexible.
You could only insmod a modules if you gave the complete path.
The idea was that if a module has to be added which could be the case at new
setup, the modules would still be on the boot media ( speak floppy here),
So you had to wait for the whole bootup /package load process, and then after
lots of packages failed because ne.o wasn't loaded, you could copy the module
to /lib/modules and things would run.
As I "remote controlled" my monitor less box, I had allways the trouble copying
those in , and I created this workaround. At that time, there wasn't the link
to /lib/modules/"kernelversion" in linuxrc. so modules on a cd were not found.
I think it is best to remove the whole bunch.
and replace modutils with
#!/bin/ash
grep ^[::alphanum..] /etc/modules | while read module args
do
case "$module" in
\#*|"") continue ;;
*) insmod $module $args
esac
echo -n "$module - "
done
To copy modules from a bootdisk, there would be better a "setup.lrp" which
would do such things at first boot.
PS
The script could probably be even improved without the case
#!/bin/bash
grep ^[a-z0-9A-Z] /etc/modules |while read module args
do
insmod $module $args 2>/dev/null
lsmod |grep -n -q ^$module || \
logger modutils module $module could not be loaded
done
Regards
Eric Wolzak
member of the bering Crew
> Alex
>
> At 15:11 29.12.2003 +0100, Alex Rhomberg wrote:
> >...
> >> It starts its search at /, which is probably fine to detect all
> >> sorts of modules in the directory tree.
> >
> >This obviously is the part that produces the original error message.
> >
> >Not looking everywhere for modules might break some setups things.
> >Unfortunately, busybox find provides neither -xdev nor -prune to avoid
> >looking in /proc. I suggest just throwing away find's stderr
> >
> >> # echo ip_conntrack_irc.o | cut -c-8
> >
> >> This IMHO does not enhance the chance to find the correct module and
> >should > be done away with.
> >
> >I agree. I propose
> >
> > echo -n "$module - "
> > MODTOLOAD=`find / -name $module.o 2>/dev/null | head -n 1`
> > if [ ! "$MODTOLOAD" = "" ] ;then
> > insmod $MODTOLOAD $args
> > else
> > echo "not found"
> > fi
> >
> >Discussion:
> >- throw away error messages of find
>
> better log them somewhere....
>
> MODTOLOAD=`find / -name $module.o 2>/tmp/$0.log | head -n 1 ;`
> [ ! -z /tmp/$0.log ] && logger $0 `cat /tmp/$0log ;`
> rm -f /tmp/$0.log;
>
> >- why the sort? doesn't make sense to me at all.
>
> Agreed
>
> >- I prefer head -n 1 to sed -n 1p
>
> It is probably faster too...
>
> >- forget the search with 8.3
> >- error reporting
>
> see above
>
> Erich
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