This allows transient module changes to be implemented by symlinks to tmpfs.
With '-v' a warning is printed.
The special-casing of ENOENT is similar to code already in depmod.c.
Signed-off-by: Keegan McAllister <keegan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
---
modprobe.c | 12 +++++++++---
1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
diff --git a/modprobe.c b/modprobe.c
index 0823c8d..7b3b44a 100644
--- a/modprobe.c
+++ b/modprobe.c
@@ -1104,9 +1104,15 @@ static int parse_config_scan(const char *filename,
nofail_asprintf(&cfgfile, "%s/%s", filename, fe->name);
if (!parse_config_file(cfgfile, conf,
- dump_only, removing))
- warn("Failed to open config file "
- "%s: %s\n", fe->name, strerror(errno));
+ dump_only, removing)) {
+ if (errno != ENOENT)
+ warn("Failed to open config file "
+ "%s: %s\n", fe->name, strerror(errno));
+ else if (verbose)
+ warn("Config file does not actually exist (broken symlink?): "
+ "%s\n", fe->name);
+ // else no warning
+ }
free(cfgfile);
list_del(&fe->node);
free(fe);
--
1.7.2.3
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