On May 10, Greg KH <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Because it's impossible to predict how it will interact with other > > > > install and alias commands. > > > Then we will just have to find out :) > > It should be clear that it will interact badly with another install > > commands, with one of them being ignored. This is not acceptable. > Why? Will they not all just be checked in order? No: $ cat /etc/modprobe.d/test install test-module /tmp/test-program 1 install test-module /tmp/test-program 2 $ cat /tmp/test-program #!/bin/sh -e echo $* > /tmp/test-log $ modprobe --verbose test-module install /tmp/test-program 2 $ cat /tmp/test-log 2 $ And if both commands were to be run, it would break in a different way (blacklisting would not work). > > It's a feature which I know my users and other maintainers need > > (for duplicated drivers, OSS drivers, watchdog drivers, usb{mouse,kbd} > > and so on) so it's a prerequisite for the successful packaging of > > hotplug-ng. > Ok, then, care to make a patch to module-init-tools to provide this > functionality? Eventually yes if nobody else will beat me, but I cannot spend time on this currently. -- ciao, Marco
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