Hi Lucas,
On 11/10/15 21:59, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
Hi Pom: Philippe De Swert <[email protected]>
The -f switch is accepted by insmod, but silently ignored. This
causes the user to wonder why things don't work. As insmod is
most often used with "evil" modules, -f is almost default and
thus needs to work.
I'd encourage people for actually *not* using -f.
Well unfortunately we still do not live in a perfect world yet. Reality
is that I had to yet again
deal with a mystery module from the deep...
I have mixed feelings here because this is disabled in insmod since
forever (it's already on the first git commit from module-init-tools).
If anyone knows the reason it would be nice... at least to include in
the commit message.
Well the weirdest thing is that it is ignored without warning. With as a
result it lets you wonder why it
did not work. I wasted quite some time checking if the last -f fix
actually did what it was supposed to do.
As making -f work was not that hard I quickly did it. Another option
would at least let the user of it know
that it won't work. However imho insmod -f is the first command you will
use trying to insert a mystery module
as it will most likely also not be visible to modprobe as the location
of it can be arbitrary.
Regards,
Philippe
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