From: Omar Sandoval <osandov@osandov.com>
To: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: linux-block@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH blktests] common/rc: allow the loop driver to be built into the kernel
Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2018 16:08:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181022230830.GD10074@vader> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181022105004.29324-1-tytso@mit.edu>
On Mon, Oct 22, 2018 at 06:50:04AM -0400, Theodore Ts'o wrote:
> A number of kernel modules used by blktests must be compiled as
> modules, since the module needs to be loaded with specific options, or
> part of the test is to exercise what what happens when the kernel
> module is loaded. This is not true for the loop driver, so add a new
> bash function, _have_kernel_module which works like _have_module but
> will not fail if the driver is compiled directly into the kernel.
`modprobe loop` works for me if the module is built in, are you using
one from busybox or something? According to strace, it looks at the
depmod information (namely, /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.builtin.bin).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-23 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-10-22 10:50 [PATCH blktests] common/rc: allow the loop driver to be built into the kernel Theodore Ts'o
2018-10-22 23:08 ` Omar Sandoval [this message]
2018-10-23 12:56 ` Theodore Y. Ts'o
2018-10-23 18:51 ` Omar Sandoval
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