On Sat, 2009-06-13 at 10:59 +0200, Andreas Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-06-12 at 14:57 -0400, Jon Masters wrote:
> > On Mon, 2009-06-01 at 14:43 +0100, Alan Jenkins wrote:
[...]
> > > Sounds good to me. Maybe it's a little verbose, but we can only spend
> > > so much time debating names :-).
It almost turned into a bike-shed discussion there, didn't it? :)
> >
> > Let's go with something like that. Andreas - do you have patches for
> > this that I have not received yet, or just the idea so far?
>
> Just the idea so far, I haven't had any time to work on it for the past
> week. :-p
>
> I have a few groundwork patches that moves the actual modprobing from
> main() to a new function called do_modprobe(), that could replace the
> system() calls:
>
> typedef enum
> {
> mit_remove = 1,
> mit_dry_run = 2,
> mit_first_time = 4,
> mit_use_blacklist = 8,
> mit_ignore_commands = 16,
> mit_ignore_inuse = 32,
> mit_strip_vermagic = 64,
> mit_strip_modversion = 128
>
> } modprobe_flags_t;
>
> int do_modprobe(modprobe_flags_t flags,
> errfn_t error,
> char *modname,
> char *newname,
> char *cmdline_opts,
> const char *configname,
> const char *dirname,
> const char *aliasfilename,
> const char *symfilename);
>
> I'll adapt the patches to Alan's work and post them later today.
>
Here they are:
git://github.com/andr345/module-init-tools.git modprobe_main
The option-handling patches were merged before.
Andreas Robinson (5)
modprobe: trivial code reorganization
modprobe: rename some option variables
modprobe: remove broken -w option
modprobe: merge option flags into a single parameter
modprobe: move modprobing from main() into separate function.
modprobe.c | 687
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------------------------
1 files changed, 339 insertions(+), 348 deletions(-)
Btw, how do you make git print a report like the one above? I put it
together manually now ...
Cheers,
Andreas
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