Subject: Re: [bug#30604] [PATCH v10 5/6] linux-initrd: Provide our own 'modprobe' program.

From: Danny Milosavljevic <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:05:57 +0100

Hi Ludo,

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:51:42 +0100
[email-masked] (Ludovic Courtès) wrote:

> Right, and the worst that can happen is that modprobe will fail, but
> that’s fine because the functionality is already there anyway.

Yeah - but what does the kernel do when we return a non-zero exit code for something he wants to use? :)

./fs/filesystems.c:     if (!fs && (request_module("%.*s", len, name) == 0))
                                                                      ^^^^ uh oh