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From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Is there a bug in hotplug.functions w/ ${TYPE}.usermap?
Date: Sat, 29 Dec 2001 04:38:53 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-hotplug-100960081900387@msgid-missing> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <marc-linux-hotplug-100956841615955@msgid-missing>

On Sat, 29 Dec 2001 03:37:22 +0200, 
Stamatis Mitrofanis <ewstam@softhome.net> wrote:
>Firstly, that `find' line is checking that belongs in modprobe. It's 
>modprobe's job to see if a (abstract) "driver" is available. modprobe 
>has aliases, null/none drivers etc. so it's high-level.

modprobe -n foo 2>/dev/null and test the return code.  0 means it found
the module, including checking aliases, extra paths etc.  You also get
0 if the module is already loaded but that is not a problem.


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  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-12-29  4:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-12-28 19:37 Is there a bug in hotplug.functions w/ ${TYPE}.usermap? Heath Elwayne Petersen
2001-12-29  1:37 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-12-29  4:38 ` Keith Owens [this message]
2001-12-29 18:23 ` David Brownell
2001-12-29 18:50 ` David Brownell
2001-12-30  3:22 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis
2001-12-30  7:49 ` David Brownell
2001-12-31  4:42 ` Stamatis Mitrofanis

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