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Bug#652672: busybox: modprobe does not handle builtins

December 19th, 2011 - 02:00 pm ET by Sven Joachim | Report spam
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Package: busybox
Version: 1:1.19.3-5
Severity: normal

Unlike the modprobe utility from module-init-tools, busybox' version
fails for built-in modules:

,-
| % grep ext4 /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.builtin
| kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko
| % sudo modprobe ext4
| % sudo busybox modprobe ext4
| modprobe: module ext4 not found in modules.dep
`-

This leads to annoying error messages on boot.


Debian Release: wheezy/sid
APT prefers unstable
APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (101, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (x86_64)

Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-rc6-nouveau (SMP w/2 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=de_DE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_DE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash

Versions of packages busybox depends on:
ii libc6 2.13-23

busybox recommends no packages.

busybox suggests no packages.




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#1 Michael Tokarev
December 19th, 2011 - 04:00 pm ET | Report spam
severity 652672 wishlist
thanks

On 19.12.2011 22:52, Sven Joachim wrote:
Package: busybox
Version: 1:1.19.3-5
Severity: normal

Unlike the modprobe utility from module-init-tools, busybox' version
fails for built-in modules:

,-
| % grep ext4 /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.builtin
| kernel/fs/ext4/ext4.ko
| % sudo modprobe ext4
| % sudo busybox modprobe ext4
| modprobe: module ext4 not found in modules.dep
`-

This leads to annoying error messages on boot.



This is what -q option is for, and it always worked this way
initially. Later modprobe in m-i-t changed behavour, but it
is not really necessary to follow this - IMHO anyway. After
all, you requested to load a module and modprobe can't do that,
hence I think m-i-t is wrong here.

Besides, it works just fine here, no annoying error messages
like that.

I'd close this bug right away but I want to hear your opinion
first, hence downgrading it to wishlist - since the behavour
is correct.

Thanks,

/mjt



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