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.

I was going to reword the last part of the commit message, but forgot
to do it before sending out the message.

- works to suppress a spurious warning.
+ works to avoid causing all tests to fail due to the error message
+ to stderr showing up in $seq.out.

	     	    	       	  - Ted



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