GNU bug report logs - #52498
[PATCH] linux-modules: Ignore EINVAL in ‘modprobe’ mode.

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Package: guix-patches;

Reported by: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>

Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2021 00:48:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: patch

Done: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #12 received at 52498-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Leo Famulari <leo <at> famulari.name>
To: Tobias Geerinckx-Rice <me <at> tobias.gr>
Cc: 52498-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: [bug#52498] [PATCH] linux-modules: Ignore EINVAL in ‘modprobe’ mode.
Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2021 12:59:01 -0500

On Wed, Dec 15, 2021 at 01:47:04AM +0100, Tobias Geerinckx-Rice via Guix-patches via wrote:
> Loading the framebuffer-coreboot module simply fails with EINVAL on a
> non-Corebooted system.  Crashing the system with a kernel panic is not
> a reasonable reaction to loading valid modules on unsupported hardware.
> The kernel should log an error, which the user is expected to see.
> 
> Bogus module names will still be fatally reported by linux-modules.drv.
> 
> * gnu/build/linux-modules.scm (load-linux-module*):
> Ignore EINVAL errors when operating recursively.

Thanks, pushed as 13f13554433c9dd47503131107dfbdd8a8031832
This bug report was last modified 3 years and 250 days ago.

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