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kbuild: generate modules.builtin

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Andreas Robinson July 15, 2009, 6:04 p.m. UTC
Guys,

is this patch what you need on the m-i-t end?

(Sorry for sending it as an attachment. I'm restricted to webmail at
the moment and can't prevent gmail from adding line breaks.)

Cheers,
Andreas

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Michal Marek July 15, 2009, 7:08 p.m. UTC | #1
Andreas Robinson napsal(a):
> Guys,
> 
> is this patch what you need on the m-i-t end?

I already have patches here (it's not against Jon's master, but it
should apply):
http://repo.or.cz/w/mit.git?a=commit;h=45c29de1b54478a63352a3f13c570a964903f54f
http://repo.or.cz/w/mit.git?a=commit;h=0e72912a1e0b486225f7052c8d40e28b07ff4495

The idea is that modprobe should just do nothing and exit successfully,
so that scripts don't break nor start printing warnings if the kernel
config changes. I meant to send it to linux-modules once there is
agreement about the modules.builtin file format.

Michal
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Andreas Robinson July 15, 2009, 8:12 p.m. UTC | #2
On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Michal Marek<mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
> Andreas Robinson napsal(a):
>> Guys,
>>
>> is this patch what you need on the m-i-t end?
>
> I already have patches here (it's not against Jon's master, but it
> should apply):
> http://repo.or.cz/w/mit.git?a=commit;h=45c29de1b54478a63352a3f13c570a964903f54f
> http://repo.or.cz/w/mit.git?a=commit;h=0e72912a1e0b486225f7052c8d40e28b07ff4495

Ah, of course!

> The idea is that modprobe should just do nothing and exit successfully,
> so that scripts don't break nor start printing warnings if the kernel
> config changes. I meant to send it to linux-modules once there is
> agreement about the modules.builtin file format.

Ok, that makes sense.

I think there's a small chance of confusion though, when a user tries
to insert a module and it doesn't show up with lsmod. Perhaps you can
add an info() message? Then the user can figure out what is happening
with the --verbose option.

Andreas
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Michal Marek July 15, 2009, 8:16 p.m. UTC | #3
Andreas Robinson napsal(a):
> On Wed, Jul 15, 2009 at 9:08 PM, Michal Marek<mmarek@suse.cz> wrote:
>> The idea is that modprobe should just do nothing and exit successfully,
>> so that scripts don't break nor start printing warnings if the kernel
>> config changes. I meant to send it to linux-modules once there is
>> agreement about the modules.builtin file format.
> 
> Ok, that makes sense.
> 
> I think there's a small chance of confusion though, when a user tries
> to insert a module and it doesn't show up with lsmod. Perhaps you can
> add an info() message? Then the user can figure out what is happening
> with the --verbose option.

Good idea, will do that.

Michal
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Patch

From d60a4a56f5d484a6076c606a111510ce40a4ccd8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Andreas Robinson <andr345@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 19:48:59 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] modprobe: warn when trying to insert a built-in module

The previous behaviour was to fail with "module foo not found".

Signed-off-by: Andreas Robinson <andr345@gmail.com>
---
 modprobe.c |   34 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--
 1 files changed, 32 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/modprobe.c b/modprobe.c
index 21a3111..a0943fe 100644
--- a/modprobe.c
+++ b/modprobe.c
@@ -1049,6 +1049,29 @@  static char *gather_options(char *argv[])
 	return optstring;
 }
 
+/* Check whether a module is built into the kernel */
+static int is_builtin(const char *modname, const char *dirname)
+{
+	char *filename;
+	FILE *file;
+	char *line;
+	int found = 0;
+
+	nofail_asprintf(&filename, "%s/modules.builtin", dirname);
+	file = fopen(filename, "r");
+	if (file) {
+		while ((line = getline_wrapped(file, NULL)) != NULL && !found) {
+			char *p = line;
+			char *builtin = underscores(strsep_skipspace(&p, "\t "));
+			found = streq(modname, builtin);
+			free(line);
+		}
+		fclose(file);
+	}
+	free(filename);
+	return found;
+}
+
 /* Do an install/remove command: replace $CMDLINE_OPTS if it's specified. */
 static void do_command(const char *modname,
 		       const char *command,
@@ -1256,6 +1279,7 @@  static int handle_module(const char *modname,
 			  struct module_options *modoptions,
 			  struct module_command *commands,
 			  const char *cmdline_opts,
+			  const char *dirname,
 			  errfn_t error,
 			  modprobe_flags_t flags)
 {
@@ -1271,6 +1295,11 @@  static int handle_module(const char *modname,
 			return 0;
 		}
 
+		if (is_builtin(modname, dirname)) {
+			warn("Module %s is built into the kernel.\n", modname);
+			return 0;
+		}
+
 		if (!quiet)
 			error("Module %s not found.\n", modname);
 		return 1;
@@ -1350,7 +1379,7 @@  int do_modprobe(char *modname,
 			read_depends(dirname, aliases->module, &list);
 			failed |= handle_module(aliases->module,
 				&list, newname, opts, modoptions,
-				commands, cmdline_opts, err, flags);
+				commands, cmdline_opts, dirname, err, flags);
 
 			aliases = aliases->next;
 			INIT_LIST_HEAD(&list);
@@ -1361,7 +1390,8 @@  int do_modprobe(char *modname,
 			return failed;
 
 		failed |= handle_module(modname, &list, newname, cmdline_opts,
-			modoptions, commands, cmdline_opts, error, flags);
+			modoptions, commands, cmdline_opts, dirname, error,
+			flags);
 	}
 	return failed;
 }
-- 
1.6.0.4