linux-kernel - Re: does /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe actually do anything?

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Message-ID: <b6fcc0a0711290207jf82e618uccecf922a22c4f33@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 13:07:14 +0300
From:	"Alexey Dobriyan" <adobriyan@...il.com>
To:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: does /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe actually do anything?

On 11/29/07, Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@...shcourse.ca> 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 .
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