From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:47:45 +0100 Subject: [Buildroot] [git commit] kmod: add option to install module utilities In-Reply-To: <87fwd03ara.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> References: <20120322150326.7CEA39693E@busybox.osuosl.org> <4F6B426F.1000509@free-electrons.com> <87fwd03ara.fsf@macbook.be.48ers.dk> Message-ID: <20120322164745.4c7d20f7@skate> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Le Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:39:53 +0100, Peter Korsgaard a ?crit : > Sooner or later we should, but I'm not sure if kmod is mature enough to > do it yet. I actually very rarely use kernel modules, perhaps someone > else knows more about it? According to the kmod talk at ELC, kmod is now a complete replacement for module-init-tools, and module-init-tools are deprecated, as Maxime said. So all distributions are likely to switch to kmod rather soon. Regards, Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, Free Electrons Kernel, drivers, real-time and embedded Linux development, consulting, training and support. http://free-electrons.com