13.11.2010 12:24, davidMbrooke пишет: > On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 11:11 +0200, Andrew wrote: >> 12.11.2010 20:24, davidMbrooke пишет: >>> I see that we are using "CONFIG_MODPROBE_SMALL" rather than >>> "CONFIG_MODPROBE" for BusyBox. Is there a good reason for that? Would >>> switching to CONFIG_MODPROBE be a practical option? >>> >>>> From comparing the source code (modprobe.c versus modprobe-small.c) it >>> seems to me that modprobe.c would give us (more) standard Debian >>> behaviour... >>> >>> dMb >> As I remembered, standard modprobe requires presence of System.map (file >> with kernel symbols) which has huge size. But I can mistake. > Hi Andrew, > > Is it fairly easy to check on that? > > I will soon be off-line until tomorrow, and I know you wanted a quick > answer on this, so my thinking is: > > - If CONFIG_MODPROBE is a practical option (e.g. no need for > System.map) then I would prefer to change to that. > > - If CONFIG_MODPROBE is *not* a practical option I am OK with > patching BusyBox - kp convinced me :-) > Best way - to look in code, or to assemble bb, copy it somewhere on running distro, and run in's modprobe.
> If we do patch BusyBox then IMHO /etc/modprobe.d/ would not be the best > name, because standard Debian has different behaviour for this > directory. See http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-modules.html > and in particular: > You can choose arbitrary names for the configuration files > in /etc/modprobe.d and put multiple options lines in the same file. > I think that is not true in the case of BusyBox. > > Maybe /etc/module-options.d/ or just /etc/modules.d/ ? > > dMb Possible - /etc/modopts.d ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list leaf-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
