[BusyBox] modprobe equivalent...or a dream?

[Richard June]

Matt Kraai wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 11, 2001 at 04:59:14AM -0700, Erik Andersen wrote:
> 
>> On Wed Jan 10, 2001 at 05:01:30PM -0500, Richard June wrote:
>> 
>>> As far as I know, busybox doesn't have that yet.(am I right Erik?)
>>> however, I just finished up a patch that appears to let GNU modprobe and 
>>> GNU depmod function w/ busybox insmod and rmmod. All it does is accept 
>>> the -L option w/out complaining. wanna give it a go and see if it works?
>> 
>> 
>> Hmm.  If this is all that is needed, I see no problem with adding this patch
>> into CVS.  I can't check it out or commit it easily at the moment.  Could
>> somebody with commit access (mark, matt, etc) please make sure this does in
>> fact work, then check it in.  Thx,
> 
> 
> What is the -L option supposed to do?  I looked through the insmod
> manpage and was unable to find it.
> 
> Matt
> 

-L, --lock            Prevent simultaneous loads of the same module

I think I mentioned this before, insmod appears to verify that only one 
instance of the module is loaded, making this not an option.