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From: "Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@gmail.com>
To: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: does /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe actually do anything?
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:07:14 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <b6fcc0a0711290207jf82e618uccecf922a22c4f33@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711290438060.13461@localhost.localdomain>

On 11/29/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> wrote:
> echo '#! /bin/sh' > /tmp/modprobe
> echo 'echo "$@" >> /tmp/modprobe.log' >> /tmp/modprobe
> echo 'exec /sbin/modprobe "$@"' >> /tmp/modprobe
> chmod a+x /tmp/modprobe
> echo /tmp/modprobe > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
>
>   i've tried that and i don't see that it does anything whatsoever.  i
> ran modprobe under "strace" and it doesn't appear to make any effort
> to check /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe.

Kernel, not modprobe, checks /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe .

  reply	other threads:[~2007-11-29 10:07 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-11-29  9:41 Robert P. J. Day
2007-11-29 10:07 ` Alexey Dobriyan [this message]
2007-11-29 10:19   ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-11-29 12:58   ` Robert P. J. Day
2007-11-29 17:14     ` Kay Sievers
2007-11-29 17:21       ` Robert P. J. Day

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