Can someone please pick up commit # 2009 and test it?

Thanks.

Philip Prindeville wrote:
> Seems like /etc/modprobe.conf should be a link to /tmp/etc/modprobe.conf ...
>
>
> Darrick Hartman wrote:
>   
>> Mart,
>>
>> This isn't an area that I've had to use so we may need to adjust it. 
>> Kristian may need to shed a little light on this too.
>>
>> MODOPTS are supposedly set as follows: (from /etc/rc)
>>
>>    if [ -n "$MODOPTS" ]; then
>>      for i in $MODOPTS; do
>>        MOD=`echo $i | cut -d: -f1`
>>        OPT=`echo $i | cut -d: -f2`
>>        echo "options $MOD $OPT" >> /tmp/etc/modprobe.conf
>>      done
>>    fi
>>
>> However, it doesn't look like that is ever used since /etc/modprobe.conf 
>> is hard coded.  For your purposes, you could edit the existing 
>> modprobe.conf file and replace it with the options you want.  The 
>> changes would be on unionfs and overwrite the other file.  After we've 
>> determined the correct way to handle this, I'll walk you through 
>> reversing the process.
>>
>> Darrick
>>
>>
>> Martin Rogers wrote:
>>   
>>     
>>> Hi
>>>
>>> This is a followup to a recent thread on modprobe which did not conclude
>>> in any resolution.
>>>
>>> It appears that setting MODOPTS in /mnt/kd/rc.conf are ignored.
>>>
>>> I am using the astlinux-0.6.1-via.img.gz image.
>>>
>>> I have set the following line in the /mnt/kd/rc.conf to set the opermode
>>> to UK
>>> and to turn debugging for the module on.
>>>
>>> MODOPTS="wctdm:opermode=UK wctdm:debug=1"
>>>
>>>  This line appears also in /etc/rc.conf after a restart indicating it
>>> was sucessfully soaked up from the keydisk.
>>>
>>> However, after a restart :
>>>  /sys/module/wctdm/parameters/opermode ="FCC"
>>>  /sys/module/wctdm/parameters/debug ="0"
>>>
>>> which looks to me as if the two flags were not picked up in the startup
>>> processing.
>>>
>>> Using a single parameter such as
>>> MODOPTS="wctdm:debug=1"
>>> does not have any effect either.
>>>
>>> Is this a bug, or am I missing something.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>> Mart
>>>     
>>>       


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