RE: modprobe -f / --force-vermagic not working correctly

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Hi Lucas,

This time I need to apologize for my late reply. Prepping a launch and demo's took it's toll and
had priority.
>> The problem was solved with the following lazy patch, which not only makes a zero'd string but also mangles the vermagic keyword,
>> confirming the theory. However I think there must be a better solution, just cannot think of it now as it is time for me to go to sleep.
>
> Humn... mangling the key is not the right thing to do. We could just
> remove the entire key-value pair. kernel as well as other tools will
> happily ignore '\0' between the strings.

Well I did say the patch was not perfect ;) Your approach seems a lot better.

>Please take a look in git head:
>http://git.kernel.org/?p=utils/kernel/kmod/kmod.git;a=commit;h=a4578669ca25ef6ede96bf4262821bcb07c8065c
>
>I'll roll out a new release soon, probably by the end of this week.

I am building it now. If the issue somehow is not fixed I will ping you about it, but this looks like it should do it.

Thanks!

Philippe--
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