From: Richard Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>
To: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
Cc: mcgrof@gmail.com, linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cleanup modprobe calls
Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:13:49 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2BEB9D.20909@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1328248669.3626.328.camel@cumari>
On 02/03/12 00:57, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 21:48 -0500, Rick Farina wrote:
>> There were a lot of needless calls to "modprobe -l <drivername>" and even more confusingly $(MODPROBE).
>> None of this is needed on a modern distro, and it errors on when modprobe -l is removed (such as KMOD in Arch Linux)
>>
>> Signed-of-By: Rick Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>
>> ---
> I agree with this. The modprobes are just there in order to list which
> of the relevant modules you have in your system. There is little value
> in this and, if considered really necessary, there surely must be other
> ways to find out?
>
Although I've never liked all this scrolling, I would have recoded it
rather than removed it if I knew how. At the present time there is no
way which I know to replicate this functionality. I suppose a find
statement could be added but honestly I just don't see it as necessary,
or any cleaner.
thanks,
Rick Farina
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-03 14:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-03 2:48 [PATCH 1/2] replace modprobe -l with modinfo Rick Farina
2012-02-03 2:48 ` [PATCH 2/2] cleanup modprobe calls Rick Farina
2012-02-03 5:57 ` Luciano Coelho
2012-02-03 14:13 ` Richard Farina [this message]
2012-02-03 14:18 ` Luciano Coelho
2012-02-03 14:31 ` Richard Farina
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