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

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On 9/11/09, Andreas Robinson <andr345@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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

I'm happy with them now.

Thanks
Alan
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