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

From: Robert P. J. Day
Date: Thu Nov 29 2007 - 05:20:35 EST


On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> 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 .

can you point me to where it does that? thanks.

rday

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