On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 6:04 AM, Richard Farina <sidhayn@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On 01/29/2012 04:39 PM, Hauke Mehrtens wrote: >> >> On 01/24/2012 08:35 PM, Richard Farina wrote: >>> >>> module-init-tools has been deprecated in favor of kmod in Arch Linux, >>> and kmod doesn't have the legacy --list option for modprobe. >>> This patch fixes the areas of the Makefile which actually needed the >>> output of modprobe -l. The other 100's of uses are just to echo info to >>> the screen which in this case will simply fail in an extremely noisy >>> fashion yet non-fatal way. >>> >>> Please apply to all branches. >>> >>> Signed-of-By: Rick Farina<sidhayn@xxxxxxxxx> >>> >>> diff -Naur compat-wireless-3.3-rc1-2/Makefile >>> compat-wireless-3.3-rc1-2-modinfo-migration/Makefile >>> --- compat-wireless-3.3-rc1-2/Makefile 2012-01-21 02:00:21.000000000 >>> -0500 >>> +++ compat-wireless-3.3-rc1-2-modinfo-migration/Makefile 2012-01-24 >>> 14:27:20.000000000 -0500 >>> @@ -9,11 +9,6 @@ >>> # Sometimes not available in the path >>> MODPROBE := /sbin/modprobe >>> >>> -ifneq ($(wildcard $(MODPROBE)),) >>> -MADWIFI=$(shell $(MODPROBE) -l ath_pci) >>> -OLD_IWL=$(shell $(MODPROBE) -l iwl4965) >>> -endif >>> - >> >> What happens if modinfo is not available? I do not know on what systems >> this is the case, but I do not think that modinfo is available when >> modprobe is not. > > AFAIK this is never the case. modinfo is packaged with module-init-tools > and on Arch module-init-tools has been replaced by KMOD which also includes > modinfo. It would seem to me that at this point modinfo is a required tool > and is always packaged with modprobe. Rusty, should all Linux distributions that carry modprobe also have modinfo ? Luis -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-wireless" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
