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

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.9999.0711290756090.29674@localhost.localdomain>
Date:	Thu, 29 Nov 2007 07:58:29 -0500 (EST)
From:	"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@...shcourse.ca>
To:	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>
cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: does /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe actually do anything?

On Thu, 29 Nov 2007, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:

> 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 .

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
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