[klibc] inclusion of alias handling in klibc insmod

[Greg KH]

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 04:29:11PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> On 1/27/06, Greg KH <greg at kroah.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:40:25PM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > > Just curious if anyone has done anything similar, as I'd rather not
> > > reporduce work.  I'm going to put alias handling (and only alias
> > > handling) into a modified version of insmod.  The reason I'm doing
> > > this is to aid in boot time module loading via aliases exposed in
> > > sysfs.  Sure, I could include modprobe directly in the initramfs, but
> > > it's a bit large, and I really only need alias resolution, not the
> > > other parts of the syntax.
> >
> > How will thie alias resolution handle the need to load dependant
> > modules?  That's why this is done in modprobe instead of insmod.
> >
> 
> In addition to the alias additions, parsing modules.dep is trivial.  I
> was planning on adding that as well.
> 
> Do you see this as unnecessary?  Adding modprobe to the initramfs is
> fine, but it uses a handful of glibc specifc functions - well,
> rephrase, posix functions not included in klibc - for instance
> fnmatch.
> 
> I could just create modprobe in it's entirety for klibc, if that
> sounds more feasible/logical.

I think by the time you finish implementing the dependancy logic, and
the fnmatch like functions in insmod, you will have already implemented
modprobe :)

Also, don't forget you need to support the blacklist stuff if you are
adding module alias support.

good luck,

greg k-h