Re: Bug#576894: modprobe -r should print and return an error value just like rmmod

[Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>]

On 9.4.2010 06:33, jidanni@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> Jon, I just want to make -r act more like one expects.
> 
> Do make it return an error (shell $?) as you don't document that it will not return
> an error, and one would expect it should. Or at -r you could document
> that no error will be returned, for some strange reason or not to break
> bad scripts or something.

modprobe -r <module> behaves analogically to modprobe <module>: If the
kernel is already in the desired state, nothing is printed and modprobe
exits successfully. If you want it to return an error in such case, use
the --first-time option.

Michal
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