On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On 11/29/07, Robert P. J. Day <[email protected]> wrote:
> > echo '#! /bin/sh' > /tmp/modprobe
> > echo 'echo "$@" >> /tmp/modprobe.log' >> /tmp/modprobe
> > echo 'exec /sbin/modprobe "$@"' >> /tmp/modprobe
> > chmod a+x /tmp/modprobe
> > echo /tmp/modprobe > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe
> >
> > i've tried that and i don't see that it does anything whatsoever. i
> > ran modprobe under "strace" and it doesn't appear to make any effort
> > to check /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe.
>
> Kernel, not modprobe, checks /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe .
actually, ignore that earlier query of mine, i've found the relevant
code under kernel/ in sysctl.c and sysctl_check.c and kmod.c. but
it's still not clear why what is described in
Documentation/debugging-modules.txt (and shown above) doesn't work, so
i'm still open to suggestions. thanks.
rday
========================================================================
Robert P. J. Day
Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry
Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA
http://crashcourse.ca
========================================================================
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
[Index of Archives]
[Kernel Newbies]
[Netfilter]
[Bugtraq]
[Photo]
[Stuff]
[Gimp]
[Yosemite News]
[MIPS Linux]
[ARM Linux]
[Linux Security]
[Linux RAID]
[Video 4 Linux]
[Linux for the blind]
[Linux Resources]
