linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] docs: admin-guide: update description for kernel.modprobe sysctl

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Message-ID: <50761eeb-6592-ba5c-e86b-ba3efe3233ff@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Date:   Mon, 10 May 2021 12:20:59 +0200
From:   Rasmus Villemoes <linux@...musvillemoes.dk>
To:     Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Jonathan Corbet <corbet@....net>
Cc:     Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Jessica Yu <jeyu@...nel.org>,
        Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@...nel.org>,
        linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] docs: admin-guide: update description for kernel.modprobe
 sysctl

On 20/04/2021 14.53, Rasmus Villemoes wrote:
> When I added CONFIG_MODPROBE_PATH, I neglected to update
> Documentation/. It's still true that this defaults to /sbin/modprobe,
> but now via a level of indirection. So document that the kernel might
> have been built with something other than /sbin/modprobe as the
> initial value.
> 

Andrew, can I get you to pick this up? It's a follow-up to what is now
known as 17652f4240f7.

Rasmus