Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1762293AbXK2KUc (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:20:32 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750741AbXK2KUV (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:20:21 -0500 Received: from astoria.ccjclearline.com ([64.235.106.9]:52707 "EHLO astoria.ccjclearline.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753168AbXK2KUU (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:20:20 -0500 Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:19:26 -0500 (EST) From: "Robert P. J. Day" X-X-Sender: rpjday@localhost.localdomain To: Alexey Dobriyan cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: does /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe actually do anything? In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - astoria.ccjclearline.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - crashcourse.ca X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1159 Lines: 31 On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote: > On 11/29/07, Robert P. J. Day 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 . can you point me to where it does that? thanks. rday ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ======================================================================== - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/