From: Richard Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>
To: "Luis R. Rodriguez" <mcgrof@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-wireless@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [compat-wireless] replace modprobe -l with functional equivilent
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 23:58:23 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F4718EF.3010300@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAB=NE6VSR8_uhsoDkgh2SmjgDerSX2CXztt2cVxYTEQSgTaYwg@mail.gmail.com>
On 02/23/12 20:39, Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:03 AM, Rick Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com> wrote:
>> modprobe -l is either deprecated or removed, so let's replace it
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Rick Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>
> Did you test this when one of those modules is present?
ozzie compat-wireless # $(modinfo compat > /dev/null 2>&1) && echo yes
yes
ozzie compat-wireless #
The logic is sound, I use the same test in another script and it works
great. It's a bit unusual I realize, but it works and it's all I could
think of. It tests the exit value of modinfo which is true when the
module exists and false when it doesn't. Simple as I could manage.
-Rick
>
> Luis
>
prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-24 4:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-02-19 16:03 [PATCH] [compat-wireless] replace modprobe -l with functional equivilent Rick Farina
2012-02-24 1:39 ` Luis R. Rodriguez
2012-02-24 4:58 ` Richard Farina [this message]
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