-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 [ Tuesday 24 October 2006 à 01h19, Steinar H. Gunderson ] > > > We should check that /proc/modules exists, and that /sbin/modprobe is > > present and executable > > Can you tell me what this will change over the current implementation? >
If /sbin/modprobe is executable but modules are not enabled (and /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep does not exists), you get an annoying message on stderr. checking /proc/modules and /sbin/modprobe let you be sure that you can and want to load modules. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFPzL/3u7xULVlIZkRAideAJ9/OLNnnLFHbJeCkBLCIbi+9SCSBACffviW +rRre4D+xO4iN1qQXYJpvag= =+sI+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
