From: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx> The use of .alias (alongside .conf) was added for compatibility with the original module-init-tools project and has been living in kmod ever since. In practise, all the linux distributions that I can see are using .conf files alone, as instructed by modprobe.d(5) and the only instance of an .alias file is the modules.alias as shipped in the kernel. The latter is already handled by other parts of the kmod project, so let's enforce what our documentation says. Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx> --- As suggested in https://lore.kernel.org/linux-modules/q6dutb2b5ztkuwjkq7a7ddnsbfneoq66bafaaxwppelepflcc5@us5n2ll5syja/T/#m84a542f8d4e2f4d31b2a7ee82aaf3d0bcf211aec I have tested this on my Arch box, alongside a normal make check/distcheck and it's working as expected. Other distributions have not been tested, although I don't anticipate any to be using .alias configuration files. The section in the README will be removed shortly via unrelated patch. --- libkmod/libkmod-config.c | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/libkmod/libkmod-config.c b/libkmod/libkmod-config.c index a571b6b..fb28ed9 100644 --- a/libkmod/libkmod-config.c +++ b/libkmod/libkmod-config.c @@ -940,8 +940,7 @@ static bool conf_files_filter_out(struct kmod_ctx *ctx, DIR *d, if (fn[0] == '.') return true; - if (len < 6 || (!streq(&fn[len - 5], ".conf") - && !streq(&fn[len - 6], ".alias"))) + if (len < 6 || !streq(&fn[len - 5], ".conf")) return true; fstatat(dirfd(d), fn, &st, 0); --- base-commit: fa715f8c8b78a09f47701ce1cf46e9b67a49b8d0 change-id: 20240708-rm-alias-288013f86456 Best regards, -- Emil Velikov <emil.l.velikov@xxxxxxxxx>
