Re: modutils and module-init-tools duplicating work
On Fri, 2003-08-29 at 00:26, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> --- Micha Feigin <michf@post.tau.ac.il> escribió:
> > It seems that modutils and module-init-tools are duplicating most of the
> > work.
> > Both of them do some check as of the kernel's ability to load modules,
> > module-init-tools also checks for /proc/modules.
> > Then both run depmod, modutils does a bit more work at it.
> > Next both of them load all the modules in /etc/modules and check about
> > modules in /boot.
> > Is this redundant work on purpose, or is it a bug, since there is no
> > problem installing both packages together, which causes a bunch of
> > module already in the kernel errors on startup.
> >
>
> modultils -- kernel < 2.5.48
> module-init-tools -- kernel >= 2.5.48
>
> Of course, module if module-init-tools finds an earlier kernel, it passes the
> work on to the old version.
>
They are still almost the same, except for the check whether to run
depmod in module-init-tools. Why do we need two of them?
> -Roberto
>
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