Re: [PATCH] common: handle old versions of modprobe which don't support --help

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On Tue, Feb 01, 2022 at 06:19:36PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> There exists versions of modprobe out there which are so old that
> modprobe --help isn't a thing.  They're certainly not going to support
> modprobe --remove-patiently, so test to make sure modprobe --help
> works to suppress a spurious warning.

Wow.

> Signed-off-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@xxxxxxx>
> Fixes: 405c21d40aa1 ("common/module: add patient module rmmod support")
> Reported-by: Leah Rumancik <leah.rumancik@xxxxxxxxx>
> Cc: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>

Reviewed-by: Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@xxxxxxxxxx>

  Luis



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