On Thu, 7 Mar 2002 23:38, Gordon Rowell wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 05:17:33PM +1100, Brad Hards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> > [...]
> > Or is this why we have /lib/modules/2.2.19-7.0.8-e-smith? Does
> > modprobe follow the precedence in /etc/modules.conf, so that the
> > e-smith modules get loaded first?
>
> Precisely. If you put your modules in there they will be found before
> the standard modules. The PPP modules to support PPTP encryption are
> found in this way.
I will repackage to use this.
Note that this arrangement is not universal. For example, the winbond-840
contrib won't work in the e-smith kernel lib locations, because ethernet.pm
only looks for drivers in the "normal" lib paths. Here is a naive, untested
patch (against 5.1.2) that indicates the problem:
--- ethernet.pm.orig Thu Mar 7 20:25:31 2002
+++ ethernet.pm Thu Mar 7 20:32:24 2002
@@ -85,6 +85,25 @@
closedir MODULES;
+ my $modules = "/lib/modules/" . $kernel . "-e-smith/net";
+
+ unless (opendir MODULES, $modules)
+ {
+ warn "Could not open network modules directory $modules: $!\n";
+ return;
+ }
+
+ foreach (readdir MODULES)
+ {
+ next if /^\.\.?$/;
+ next if -d;
+
+ s/\.o$//;
+ ++$network_drivers{$_};
+ }
+
+ closedir MODULES;
+
my $pcitable = "/usr/share/kudzu/pcitable";
unless (open(PCITABLE, $pcitable))
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