[klibc] klibc insmod for recent kernels

[Rusty Russell]

In message <200301031726.42706.arnd@bergmann-dalldorf.de> you write:
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> On Wednesday 25 December 2002 22:29, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
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> > That's not necessarily true.  Remember that an initramfs can be
> > synthetically constructed, and it should be possible to inject a new
> > driver at boot time, which may need to have dependencies resolved.
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> Right. So we actually need the full set of module-init-tools (or a fork
> of them) to compile against klibc.

If I were you, I'd cut down depmod to just the dependency parts, put
that logic inside a cutdown modprobe (it takes about 0.5 seconds for
600 modules, so it's pretty quick), and offer that.  Put the modules
in a flat directory (say, everything in /modules which ends in .ko is
a module), and allow a .options file for each module, which if it
exists, contains the insmod options.

My guess is you'd end up around 250 lines of code (including both 64
and 32-bit support), and you could drop modules in at random.

If you're interested I could certainly write such a thing...
Rusty.
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