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| author | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2009-10-08 22:54:41 +0200 |
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| committer | Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com> | 2009-10-08 22:54:41 +0200 |
| commit | 6332151641f2c80c0ca57bd2f7dd11393619bc3a (patch) | |
| tree | bb2dc0203ccf546f0f1e5ea3a61f5f76d8e6e068 /modutils | |
| parent | 784d095877ed64890700e51494badf17eca2bd82 (diff) | |
| download | busybox-6332151641f2c80c0ca57bd2f7dd11393619bc3a.tar.gz | |
modprobe-small: added comment about multiple alias matches
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux@googlemail.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'modutils')
| -rw-r--r-- | modutils/modprobe-small.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/modutils/modprobe-small.c b/modutils/modprobe-small.c index e2359d042..8ef9101e7 100644 --- a/modutils/modprobe-small.c +++ b/modutils/modprobe-small.c @@ -573,6 +573,14 @@ static void process_module(char *name, const char *cmdline_options) info = find_alias(name); } +// Problem here: there can be more than one module +// for the given alias. For example, +// "pci:v00008086d00007010sv00000000sd00000000bc01sc01i80" matches +// ata_piix because it has an alias "pci:v00008086d00007010sv*sd*bc*sc*i*" +// and ata_generic, it has an alias "alias=pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc01sc01i*" +// Standard modprobe would load them both. +// In this code, find_alias() returns only the first matching module. + /* rmmod? unload it by name */ if (is_rmmod) { if (delete_module(name, O_NONBLOCK | O_EXCL) != 0 |