Distro packagers should create them instead. It's too much trouble to
create them in the build system and every distro wants a different path
for them.
It was not on module-init-tools and it doesn't make much sense. It will
deal with dependencies, but looking at modules in the index. This might
not be the module we want if we are loading another from outside of the
tree.
Dealing with paths causes this bug (supposing there's a module names
squashfs):
# cd /
# touch squashfs
# modprobe squashfs
That is because it detects that squashfs exists as a file and it will
try to load it instead of the alias "squashfs".
If you need to load a module from a path, use insmod.
Thanks to Silvan Calarco <silvan.calarco@mambasoft.it> who reported the
bug and helped debugging it.
Not all libc's have a mtim member in struct stat (dietlibc doesn't).
Change ts_usec() to receive a struct stat as parameter and implement it
accordingly for both cases.
Index dump doesn't use stdio.h function and instead call write()
directly on STDOUT_FILENO file descriptor. Therefore we need to flush
stdio buffers before calling it, to be sure the configuration dump will
appear before index's.
Provide a function to dump the index files to a certain fd. It could be
more optimized (particularly the functions to dump the index that were
copied and pasted from m-i-t), but it seems like the only user of it is
'modprobe -c', used for debugging purposes. So, keep it as is.
Config iterators are useful to get each configuration list, remember its
type and how to get their key/value pair.
softdeps don't have the value yet, because they are stored as string
vectors.
Just like the module insertion, module removal is remade.
The dependencies line that comes from modules.dep already contains all
the dependencies necessary to remove that module. Therefore modprobe
doesn't have to do the recursion between the modules in order to remove
it. All we have to do is to remove in order:
For the module being removed:
----------------------------
1. softdeps (in reverse order)
2. deps (in reverse order)
3. module
4. postdeps (in reverse order)
For any of the dependencies:
----------------------------
1. softdeps (in reverse order)
2. module
3. softdeps (in reverse order)
The dependencies line that comes from modules.dep already contains all
the dependencies necessary to insert that module. Therefore modprobe
doesn't have to do the recursion between the modules in order to load a
module. All we have to do is to load in order:
For the module being loaded:
----------------------------
1. softdeps
2. deps
3. module
4. postdeps
For any of the dependencies:
----------------------------
1. softdeps
2. module
3. softdeps
