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. -- Ben Hutchings Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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