Bug#624692: suggested patch
 

which module-init-tools do you use?

and why not emmit the warning there properly.
to have that fixed for dractu too.

thanks

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Bug#624692: suggested patch
 

On 11-04-30 21:41, maximilian attems <maks@debian.org> wrote:
> which module-init-tools do you use?

3.12-1

> and why not emmit the warning there properly.
> to have that fixed for dractu too.

Yes, that would be possible, too, but:

modprobe emits an error that is suppressed by the --quiet parameter:
| # modprobe --set-version="2.6.32.39" --ignore-install --show-depends r8168
| FATAL: Module r8168 not found.

Problem is that this warning is not very helpful since the module does
indeed exists, just modules.dep does not contain a reference to it. So
if modprobe were to emit a proper warning (like "Module r8168 not found
in modules.dep, try depmod -a $version") , the --quiet would still have
to be removed from the call to modprobe.



Ciao,

Alexander Wuerstlein.



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Bug#624692: suggested patch
 

On Sat, 2011-04-30 at 22:34 +0200, Alexander Wuerstlein wrote:
> On 11-04-30 21:41, maximilian attems <maks@debian.org> wrote:
> > which module-init-tools do you use?
>
> 3.12-1
>
> > and why not emmit the warning there properly.
> > to have that fixed for dractu too.
>
> Yes, that would be possible, too, but:
>
> modprobe emits an error that is suppressed by the --quiet parameter:
> | # modprobe --set-version="2.6.32.39" --ignore-install --show-depends r8168
> | FATAL: Module r8168 not found.
>
> Problem is that this warning is not very helpful since the module does
> indeed exists, just modules.dep does not contain a reference to it.
[...]

I think the current error message in modprobe is fine; it is not the job
of modprobe to provide a tutorial on how to install modules.

I think mkinitramfs should warn about any module that can't be found by
modprobe, but there may be some exceptions where we want the quiet
behaviour.

Ben.

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