GNU bug report logs - #30604
[PATCH 0/4] Load Linux module only when supported hardware is present.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>

Date: Sun, 25 Feb 2018 11:47:02 UTC

Severity: important

Tags: patch

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From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 30604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: [bug#30604] [PATCH v8 3/7] linux-boot: Load kernel modules only when the hardware is present.
Date: Fri, 9 Mar 2018 23:19:42 +0100
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oops,

On Fri, 9 Mar 2018 23:13:20 +0100
Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org> wrote:

> As I said, modprobe mutates /sys - you cannot use find-files.  

I guess technically it's the Linux kernel module that mutates it.

>I haven't used
> ftw just to be contrarian.  There's even a warning comment :-)
> 
> In order to find that out, try to print how /sys looked before modprobe - then
> in the early guile recovery REPL print how /sys looks again - the alias it
> was juuust complaining about will be there just fine.
> 
> My patch series works fine lazy-loading the IO charset, virtio_blk, virtio_net.

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