Re: [PATCH] modprobe: handle built-in modules (v4, this time tested...)

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On Thu, 2009-09-10 at 16:26 +0200, Michal Marek wrote:
> The kernel installs a modules.builtin file listing all builtin
> modules. Let depmod generate a modules.builtin.bin file and use
> this in modprobe: If a module is not found in modules.dep or
> modules.alias, check if the module is builtin and either do nothing,
> or print "builtin <module>" if --show-depends was given. Trying to
> remove a builtin module returns an error, as does inserting a builtin
> module with --first-time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michal Marek <mmarek@xxxxxxx>

Tested and works fine here. (x86-64)
Adding a 'Tested-by: Andreas Robinson <andr345@xxxxxxxxx>'

If you guys feel that they're done, I can add this patch and [patch 1/2]
to my pull request to Jon later today. They're all in my repo anyway
(http://github.com/andr345/module-init-tools/commits/builtin-modules/).

Cheers,
Andreas


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