We need to keep config files sorted and use them taking the precedence
order into account.
The following message was taken from module-init-tools commit doing a
similar thing:
Configuration files are parsed in alphabetic order, regardles of
what directory they reside in. Furthermore, if several files by
the same name exist in different directories only the one in the
directory with highest precedence is loaded.
The order of precedence is /run, /etc, /usr/lib, /lib.
The sad thing is that we are not using openat() anymore since each file
is in different directories. In future we might change the
implementation to open all DIRs and keep a reference
to them instead of the path. However we'd have to keep a separate list
with all the opened dirs so we can close them later (when all configs
are parsed).
Check if '=' appeared before the dot. In this case, it's not a valid
module option in kernel command line.
The command line that was failing is:
"root=/dev/sda3 ro pcie_aspm=force init=/sbin/bootchartd
initrd=../initramfs-linux.img BOOT_IMAGE=../vmlinuz-linux"
Lines should not go over 80 chars with a few exceptions:
- headers
- function definitions with only 1 argument
- long strings, otherwise we break grep
This should go later in a coding-style file
This will be required to implement modprobe later. The implementation
follows "man modprobe.conf" and allows options to be specified for
alias as well, thus the need for kmod_resolve_alias_options().
Example mod-a.conf:
options mod-a a=1 b=2
options mod-a c=3
alias mymod-a mod-a
options mymod-a d=4
Results in:
options mod-a a=1 b=2 c=3
options mymod-a a=1 b=2 c=3 d=4
Install commands are being concatenated with ";", but manpage is not
clean about this behavior.
1) Allocate less by not sorting the result with qsort. Instead,
insert the nodes in the correct order;
2) Do not maintain the whole path in memory, but rely on openat()
make the function names reflect the structure they are operating on.
the structure is now allocated and remembers the context it was
created, then no need to give the context in every function call.
functions that do not modify their parameters get them as const pointers.
special cases:
* kmod_get_userdata/kmod_set_userdata: return as void* for user convenience.
* kmod_list_append/kmod_list_prepend: take const void* for user convenience.
