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[PATCH 0/4] Load Linux module only when supported hardware is present.

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Message #379 received at 30604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Danny Milosavljevic <dannym <at> scratchpost.org>
To: ludo <at> gnu.org (Ludovic Courtès)
Cc: 30604 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#30604] [PATCH v10 5/6] linux-initrd: Provide our own
 'modprobe' program.
Date: Tue, 13 Mar 2018 13:05:57 +0100

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Hi Ludo,

On Tue, 13 Mar 2018 11:51:42 +0100
ludo <at> gnu.org (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

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