Re: [PATCH] kconfig: dont hardcode path to lsmod

[Steven Rostedt]

On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 12:23 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:25, AmÃrico Wang wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 01:52:00AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>The lsmod utility has always been installed into /bin with the newer
> >>module-init-tools package, so let lsmod be found via PATH instead of
> >>hardcoding the old modutils /sbin path.
> >>
> >
> > Some distro doesn't set /sbin to PATH, so for me a better solution
> > would be making PATH contain /sbin, and then use "lsmod".
> 
> read my changelog -- module-init-tools has always installed into /bin.
>  so what your distro does with /sbin doesnt matter.

I still have boxes where lsmod is in /sbin, but that's beside the point.

The patch I made checked for lsmod
in /sbin /bin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin. I
could also make it do "lsmod" after that.

-- Steve


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