Re: does /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe actually do anything?

[Alexey Dobriyan]

On 11/29/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> echo '#! /bin/sh' > /tmp/modprobe
> echo 'echo "$@" >> /tmp/modprobe.log' >> /tmp/modprobe
> echo 'exec /sbin/modprobe "$@"' >> /tmp/modprobe
> chmod a+x /tmp/modprobe
> echo /tmp/modprobe > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
>
>   i've tried that and i don't see that it does anything whatsoever.  i
> ran modprobe under "strace" and it doesn't appear to make any effort
> to check /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe.

Kernel, not modprobe, checks /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe .
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