Bug#341273: Doesn't understand install and remove directives in modprobe.conf

[Norbert Veber <nveber@debian.org>]

On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 10:51:56PM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:42:51PM -0500, Norbert Veber wrote:
> > On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 07:46:34PM +0100, Erik van Konijnenburg wrote:
> > > The reason is that install lines in the modprobe configuration are complete
> > > shell scripts: they can invoke every executable, access every file.
> > 
> > Oh I see.  How does the old mkinitrd handle this?
> 
> Ignore the install lines and hope for the best.
> 
> quoting mkinitrd: sed -n 's%^insmod \([^ ]\+\).*%\1%p'

Oh.  Thats probably reasonable as long as its documented, or better yet
a warning could be printed.  Failing with an error is a bit overkill I
think.

Thanks,

Norbert