From: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
To: Karel Zak <kzak@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] blkid: support .ko.gz in modules.dep parser
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2009 22:26:35 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090828022635.GS6997@mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1251054836-5708-1-git-send-email-kzak@redhat.com>
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 09:13:56PM +0200, Karel Zak wrote:
> The Linux kernel modules could be compressed, it means modules.dep
> parser in libblid has to support .ko.gz extension too.
>
> (Note, I've talked about this problem with Jon Masters and his
> suggestion is to exec(/sbin/modinfo) rather than directly parse
> modules.dep. BTW, the modules.dep file is deprecated.)
Thanks, applied.
Running modinfo might be the better solution, but there's the standard
tricky business of forking and execing a program from a library (which
might have threads, or open file descriptors, etc.)
- Ted
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2009-08-23 19:13 [PATCH] blkid: support .ko.gz in modules.dep parser Karel Zak
2009-08-28 2:26 ` Theodore Tso [this message]
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