Re: [Linux Wireless] Update of "en/users/Download" by ReinetteChatre

[Roman Macko <rmacko72@gmail.com>]

ok, I'm going to do a patch of check_depmod script and I'll send it to you
as soon as I do it.

roman

Luis R. Rodriguez wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 6:20 PM, Roman Macko<rmacko72@gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Luis,
>>
>> I have version 3.6 of module-init-tools and this version reads /etc/depmod.d
>> directory too.
>>
>> But I wanted to understand how depmod reads config files, so I looked into
>> source codes (both version 3.6 and 3.10)
>> and finally found out how it works.
>>
>> Assume depmod is run without -C or --config option
>>
>> Version 3.6 reads firstly /etc/depmod.conf file and then it reads config
>> files in directory /etc/depmod.d.
>> Files in directory /etc/depmod.d are read and parsed in unpredictable order
>> by readdir function (this function uses
>> raw directory structures of filesystem)
>>
>> Version 3.10 reads /etc/depmod.conf firstly as well, but this config file is
>> considered as deprecated in this version
>> and prints out warning about that. Then it reads config files in directory
>> /etc/depmod.d by readdir function as well, but before it starts
>> to parse them, it sorts them accord to filename, so you know the order in
>> which they are going to be parsed
>> and this is very improtant!!! This behavior should be from version 3.7
>>
>> The same for both versions:
>> 1) List of directories to be searched is created from search commands from
>> all config files in order how particular
>> search commands are found in config files (so order of parsed config files
>> is important). If no search command is found,
>> updates directory is added before "built-in" directory.
>>
>> 2) As for override command, the last one found for particular module and
>> kernel in all config files wins,
>> so again the order of parsed config files is important.
>>
>> From this is evident, that both versions can work differently which depends
>> on the order of parsed config files from
>> /etc/depmod.d directory that is different in both versions.
>>
>> So solution would be:
>> 1) if there is no search command in any of config files (in /etc/depmod.conf
>>  or those in /etc/depmod.d directory), do nothing.
>> 2) if there is a search command in any of config files and does not contain
>> updates directory before built-in add search command
>>   "search updates" in
>>  a) if system has version >=3.7, create config file in /etc/depmod.d
>> directory which name is alphabeticaly less than all you will find
>>     in that directory
>>  b) if system has version <=3.6 add search command "search updates" at the
>> begining of /etc/depmod.conf file
>>
>> But such adding of "search updates" can break depmod configuration in some
>> systems or it is not desirable to make search in
>> updates directory at all. So maybe it would be better to use another name
>> for directory than updates
>>
>> Or it would be also interesting to use override command for all modules
>> compiled in compat-wireless
>> and put it all to configuration file /etc/depmod.d/compat-wireless.conf and
>> not bothering with version of depmod nor
>> finding the search command in all configuration files, e.g
>>
>> compat-wireless.conf
>> ======================================
>> override iwlagn * updates/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi
>> override iwlcore * updates/drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi
>> ....
>> ....
>> ....
>> ======================================
>>
>> it can make problem only when some other config file in /etc/depmod.d
>> directory contains override command for
>> any module from compat-wireless
>>
>>
>> I hope this help you
>>     
>
> Thanks, since you have read this and can read code, mind putting
> together a patch for the script on compat-wireless?
>
>   Luis
>