Re: [PATCH] kbuild: generate modules.builtin

From: Michal Marek
Date: Wed Jul 15 2009 - 16:16:20 EST


Andreas Robinson napsal(a):
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Michal Marek<mmarek@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>> The idea is that modprobe should just do nothing and exit successfully,
>> so that scripts don't break nor start printing warnings if the kernel
>> config changes. I meant to send it to linux-modules once there is
>> agreement about the modules.builtin file format.
>
> Ok, that makes sense.
>
> I think there's a small chance of confusion though, when a user tries
> to insert a module and it doesn't show up with lsmod. Perhaps you can
> add an info() message? Then the user can figure out what is happening
> with the --verbose option.

Good idea, will do that.

Michal
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