This patch series allows modprobe to be called with a direct path to a module object. This is specially useful for testing just compiled modules when they have dependencies, which are loaded with insmod. Gustavo Sousa (2): modprobe: Move insertion block into separate function modprobe: Allow passing path to module man/modprobe.xml | 5 + testsuite/populate-modules.sh | 1 + .../lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.alias | 1 + .../lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.alias.bin | Bin 0 -> 12 bytes .../lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.builtin.bin | 0 .../lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.dep | 1 + .../lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.dep.bin | Bin 0 -> 73 bytes .../lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.devname | 0 .../lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.softdep | 1 + .../lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.symbols | 1 + .../lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.symbols.bin | Bin 0 -> 12 bytes .../module-from-path/proc/modules | 0 testsuite/test-modprobe.c | 22 ++++ tools/modprobe.c | 111 +++++++++++------- 14 files changed, 98 insertions(+), 45 deletions(-) create mode 100644 testsuite/rootfs-pristine/test-modprobe/module-from-path/lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.alias create mode 100644 testsuite/rootfs-pristine/test-modprobe/module-from-path/lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.alias.bin create mode 100644 testsuite/rootfs-pristine/test-modprobe/module-from-path/lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.builtin.bin create mode 100644 testsuite/rootfs-pristine/test-modprobe/module-from-path/lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.dep create mode 100644 testsuite/rootfs-pristine/test-modprobe/module-from-path/lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.dep.bin create mode 100644 testsuite/rootfs-pristine/test-modprobe/module-from-path/lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.devname create mode 100644 testsuite/rootfs-pristine/test-modprobe/module-from-path/lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.softdep create mode 100644 testsuite/rootfs-pristine/test-modprobe/module-from-path/lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.symbols create mode 100644 testsuite/rootfs-pristine/test-modprobe/module-from-path/lib/modules/4.4.4/modules.symbols.bin create mode 100644 testsuite/rootfs-pristine/test-modprobe/module-from-path/proc/modules -- 2.39.0
