From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com>
To: Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: "Américo Wang" <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kconfig: dont hardcode path to lsmod
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 12:38:28 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263922708.2737.139.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8bd0f97a1001190923p6104acb4if5ec7225d549b713@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, 2010-01-19 at 12:23 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:25, Américo Wang wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 01:52:00AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>The lsmod utility has always been installed into /bin with the newer
> >>module-init-tools package, so let lsmod be found via PATH instead of
> >>hardcoding the old modutils /sbin path.
> >>
> >
> > Some distro doesn't set /sbin to PATH, so for me a better solution
> > would be making PATH contain /sbin, and then use "lsmod".
>
> read my changelog -- module-init-tools has always installed into /bin.
> so what your distro does with /sbin doesnt matter.
I still have boxes where lsmod is in /sbin, but that's beside the point.
The patch I made checked for lsmod
in /sbin /bin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/local/bin and /usr/local/sbin. I
could also make it do "lsmod" after that.
-- Steve
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-01-19 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-01-19 6:52 [PATCH] kconfig: dont hardcode path to lsmod Mike Frysinger
2010-01-19 14:10 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-19 14:25 ` Américo Wang
[not found] ` <520f0cf11001190822t6d3221bco20739d586608bfde@mail.gmail.com>
2010-01-19 16:29 ` John Kacur
2010-01-19 16:37 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-01-19 17:37 ` John Kacur
2010-01-19 17:23 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-01-19 17:38 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2010-01-19 17:42 ` John Kacur
2010-01-19 17:54 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-01-19 18:12 ` John Kacur
2010-01-19 19:18 ` Mike Frysinger
2010-01-20 3:16 ` Américo Wang
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