From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1S1Nrg-0002MT-4J for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:05:08 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 94421E0B8B; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:04:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ironport2-out.teksavvy.com (ironport2-out.teksavvy.com [206.248.154.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 726DAE0970 for ; Sat, 25 Feb 2012 20:04:24 +0000 (UTC) X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AokGAKU/KE9Ld/0c/2dsb2JhbACBX48mjVV5iHCeGYYZBIZQjX6GS4QL X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.73,1,1325480400"; d="scan'208";a="164616606" Received: from 75-119-253-28.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO waltdnes.org) ([75.119.253.28]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with SMTP; 25 Feb 2012 15:04:22 -0500 Received: by waltdnes.org (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:04:22 -0500 From: "Walter Dnes" Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 15:04:22 -0500 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: virtual/modutils and module-init-tools Message-ID: <20120225200422.GA9246@waltdnes.org> References: <20120225060107.GA12218@linux1> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-Archives-Salt: ac488140-c32a-42cc-b352-f5f376f8198e X-Archives-Hash: 6303d09c456d21605069d09a733de5c5 On Sat, Feb 25, 2012 at 08:28:23AM +0000, Duncan wrote > That leaves those using a dev-manager other than udev in a current > installation who are depending on the current system set listing to bring > in module-init-tools. I believe busybox has it's own modutils as well, > doesn't it, so that eliminates them. Would this require tweaking the virtual/dev-manager ebuild? Taking a quick glance at http://busybox.net/downloads/BusyBox.html it does have lsmod/modprobe/rmmod, but not modinfo. Are there any ebuilds or init scripts that use modprobe or rmmod? If so, the ebuild should at least have an ewarn message telling mdev users to create the necessary symlinks to modprobe/rmmod. Maybe even attempt to create the symlinks if they don't already exist. I'm not a programmer or developer, but I am running udev-less Gentoo using busybox's mdev. I've got a spare machine that I'm willing to use as a guinea-pig for testing mdev under the proposed setup. How difficult would it be to set up an mdev-based profile, already? -- Walter Dnes