Re: [PATCH] modprobe: Ignore custom install commands if module_in_kernel() doesn't work

[Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@xxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:12, Alan Jenkins <alan-jenkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I do plan to submit a patch for /proc/modules support.

What's the point in supporting that old kernels with new versions of
tools? I doubt, that people can resolve all the other dependencies, or
convert all the modpronbe files to /etc/modprobe.d/ at the same time.
Fixing the looping bug sounds good, but adding support to optimize for
ancient kernels seems a bit too much to me, can't we just return, in
case we can not check the current state?

Thank,
Kay
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