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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cleanup modprobe calls
From: Luciano Coelho <coelho@ti.com>
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Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 07:57:49 +0200
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On Thu, 2012-02-02 at 21:48 -0500, Rick Farina wrote: 
> There were a lot of needless calls to "modprobe -l <drivername>" and even more confusingly $(MODPROBE).
> None of this is needed on a modern distro, and it errors on when modprobe -l is removed (such as KMOD in Arch Linux)
> 
> Signed-of-By: Rick Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>
> ---

I agree with this.  The modprobes are just there in order to list which
of the relevant modules you have in your system.  There is little value
in this and, if considered really necessary, there surely must be other
ways to find out?

-- 
Cheers,
Luca.