On 2012-03-04 10:00 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote:
> I'm trying to write some scripts to help out with debugging kernel traces, 
> etc. for people who aren't used to doing such, trying to automate everything 
> as much as possible.
> 
> I've identified a need to use modinfo, but just selecting 
> CONFIG_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_MODINFO=y doesn't do it since we don't build and 
> install modules.dep in the kernel.
> 
> root@OpenWrt:/# modinfo crc_ccitt
> modinfo: can't open '/lib/modules/3.2.2/modules.dep': No such file or 
> directory
> root@OpenWrt:/#
> 
> For, at most 100 modules or so, the file size shouldn't be too objectionable, 
> and as a text file with a lot of repetition it should compress down well on 
> the squashfs.
> 
> Can we add support for this? It's a matter of building an external kernel 
> target, right? modpost or whatever?
What would you even need modinfo for? I've never needed it for debugging
traces in kernel modules, nor do I think it should be enabled by default.

- Felix
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