----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Denys Vlasenko" <[email protected]>
To: "Chris Monkiewicz" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, June 18, 2009 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: Modules.dep Paths


> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 5:08 AM, Chris
> Monkiewicz<[email protected]> wrote:
> > I'm having a problem with modprobe and modules.dep. Depmod on Ubuntu
9.04
> > generates modules.dep with relative paths. This seems to be the new
behavior
> > of mod-init-tools. We're using busybox 1.12.1 which expects modules.dep
to
> > have absolute paths.
>
> > Do newer versions of busybox expect absolute or
> > relative paths?
>
> Current modprobe code (and 1.14.x, 1.13.x too) chdir's into
> /lib/module/`uname -r`,
> so it _should_ (meaning: I did not test it) work ok with modules.dep
> with names relative to that directory.
>
For curiosity, I tested that on master tree.
Just made a sed on bb modules.dep to shorten the path.
Relative path look to work with modprobe.
This spare 12 K on modules.dep size for our modules list, approximately 1/3
of original file size.

    Gilles

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