Re: [PATCH] depmod: New option for m-i-t prior 3.6 compatibility

[Daniel Hilst Selli <danielhilst@gmail.com>]

On 07/22/2014 06:27 PM, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Daniel Hilst SellI
> <danielhilst@gmail.com> wrote:
>> New option (-N, --no-relative) create databases with absolute paths.
>> This option is made to create databases compatible with
>> module-init-tools prior 3.6 version.
>
> What's the use case here? Do you want a newer depmod to create a
> database to be read by ancient modprobe (from 2008 as far as I could
> check)? Why?
>
> If it was the opposite (make modprobe to work with old database), I
> could understand. But I can't really see why you are doing this here
> and it just sounds crazy to me.
>
>
> Lucas De Marchi
>
I work with embedded systems from 2009, which use modprobe from m-i-t
3.4, updating m-i-t means update tons of nodes. Of course I can simply
run depmod from target and get everything fixed, but this creates a
dependence of running stuff after installing the image, which is
unproductive. I want images working out-of-box after generated.

So I patched depmod to generate databases compatible with my old
systems, without harming new features.

Cheers,