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

On 07/22/2014 06:27 PM, Lucas De Marchi wrote:

On Mon, Jul 21, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Daniel Hilst SellI
[off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

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,