linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] markup_oops: Use modinfo to avoid confusion with underscored module names

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Date:	Thu, 06 Aug 2009 18:32:12 +0300
From:	Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@...dus.org.tr>
To:	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, akpm@...ux-foundation.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] markup_oops: Use modinfo to avoid confusion with underscored
 module names

Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On Thu,  6 Aug 2009 15:21:55 +0300
> Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@...dus.org.tr> wrote:
>
>   
>> When EIP is at a module having an underscore in its name, the current
>> code fails to find it because the module filenames has '-' instead of
>> '_'.
>>
>> Use modinfo to correctly get the full path to the module.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Ozan Çağlayan <ozan@...dus.org.tr>
>>     
>
> I like it, it's simple.
> I don't mind about the module-init-tools dependency, everyone will have
> that already.
>   

BTW, note that the old code was searching for *.ko files in
dirname($vmlinux_name). Replacing it by modprobe will eventually always
search for the modules in /lib/modules/KVER/.
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