Re: Patch: module-init-tools-0.6/modprobe.c - support subdirectories

From: Keith Owens (kaos@ocs.com.au)
Date: Tue Nov 19 2002 - 01:49:56 EST


On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 17:42:38 +1100,
Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> wrote:
>In message <20021118073247.A10109@adam.yggdrasil.com> you write:
>> The following untested patch adds subdirectory support to
>> module-init-tools-0.6/modprobe.c. I really need this for tools that I
>> use for building initial ramdisks to do things like select all SCSI
>> and IDE drivers without having to release a new version of the ramdisk
>> maker every time a new SCSI or IDE driver is added. The patch is a net
>> addition of four lines to modprobe.c.
>
>Hmm, I'm not entirely convinced. Moving back into subdirs introduces
>a namespace which isn't really there. However, as you say, it's
>trivial.

mkinitrd.
modprobe -l -t scsi.

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