linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] init/Kconfig: Add option to set modprobe command

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Date:	Mon, 13 May 2013 16:16:33 +0200
From:	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>
To:	Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi@...il.com>
Cc:	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] init/Kconfig: Add option to set modprobe command

On 05/11, Lucas De Marchi wrote:
>
> On Fri, May 10, 2013 at 2:10 PM, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com> wrote:
> >
> >> > -char modprobe_path[KMOD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/modprobe";
> >> > +char modprobe_path[KMOD_PATH_LEN] = "/sbin/modprobe -q --";
> >
> > No. This is incompatible change, we shouldn't do this.
>
> But then what option do we have? I don't think any distro writing to
> sysctl would stop working without "-q --".

Who knows?

Again, I won't argue, I simply do not know. But this is incompatible
change.

> And if they are indeed
> using this during boot, I think they would be much safer to just
> change to set this at compile time like this patch is trying to do.

Personally I think that "compile time" is not the best choice, but
I won't argue.

> Otherwise, the options are really ugly:
>
> 1) always give "-q --" by putting this on the kasprintf() call:
> kasprintf(GFP_KERNEL, "%s -q -- %s", modprobe_command, module_name).
> 2) provide a proc_dostring_modprobe, which ensures "-q --" is appended
> to the provided path

Agreed, both options do not look nice.

Lucas. I will be happy to resend the argv_split/call_modprobe changes,
but I can't judge whether we can/want do this.

Oleg.

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