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Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2012 09:13:49 -0500
From: Richard Farina <sidhayn@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] cleanup modprobe calls
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On 02/03/12 00:57, Luciano Coelho wrote:
> 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?
>
Although I've never liked all this scrolling, I would have recoded it
rather than removed it if I knew how.  At the present time there is no
way which I know to replicate this functionality. I suppose a find
statement could be added but honestly I just don't see it as necessary,
or any cleaner.

thanks,
Rick Farina