On Tuesday 17 June 2003 19:42, Guillaume Cottenceau wrote: > Sorry for the so long delay in answering.. > > > > this one is using awk. Frankly speaking I think it is much easier to just > > add > > Ouch it's long and extreme.. is this really needed? > > > probeall (and possible probe) to modprobe from module-init-tools than add > > highly unreliable parsing to every package that has to check modules > > conf. > > Ah, so in that case the above mentioned code would be unneeded, > right? Frankly I'd prefer not having to maintain the frightening > awk code you've submitted to me :). >
please, look at http://supermount-ng.sf.net/mdk-25/ it has several SRPMs that I'm currently using on my system with 2.5.71 as of this writing. They allow me to freely boot both 2.4 and 2.5 kernels. No, I guess this ugly code is not needed; the version on this site contains much more simple sed script. it is not as fool proof but it should work as long as modprobe.conf is automatically generated. As for probeall support - it is up to you to decide. I did not want to add any incompatible changes so far. I think, we need more experience, it is just as with devfs. I am currently thinking on improved alias support for modprobe (at least, I think it is improved :) BTW modprobe there also has patch for probeall. mdule-init-tools are totally different from modutils so some common policy should be established before 2.5 can be added to distro. -andrey
