On Thu, 12 Aug 2021 16:59:35 +0200 Emmanuel Deloget <[email protected]> wrote:
> * busybox-1.33.0_skip-loop-control.patch makes get_free_loop() behave > as if there was no free loop devices (unconditionnaly). It would help > to have some background info here, as it does not seem to fix a bug. It fixes a specific case of non-devtmpfs + the loop device returned by loop-control does not exist in /dev yet. The code after in that case is racy and buggy, but such a combo is rare, probably just us, so we didn't submit it. > * busybox-1.27.1-wget-make-default-timeout-configurable.patch does > exactly what it says it does - it makes the default wget timeout a > configurable value. I sent this a long time ago and it was rejected. > * busybox-1.33.0_modprobe.patch checks whether the module is an ELF > bianry before sending it to the kernel. Since the checks that the > kernel performs are more comprehensive, I don't see much value in > adding a simple check of the ELF header here -- not to mention that > the code is duplicated. This silences very loud kernel complaints when using compressed modules IIRC. Was discussed on both here and lkml. > * busybox-1.33.0_tc_depmod.patch : it *seems* that this one solves a > bug but I cannot wrap my head around it. More particularly, I'm > wondering if this is a tinycore thing (having modules hidden behind > symlinks) or if this is a real issue. Without it modules behind a symlinked dir aren't found; but again, very likely just affects TC, so didn't send it. - Lauri _______________________________________________ busybox mailing list [email protected] http://lists.busybox.net/mailman/listinfo/busybox
