[BusyBox] modultils for 2.6?

[Patrick Huesmann]

Hi,

DHollenbeck wrote:

> busybox modprobe for 2.6 is broken in 1.00-pre7 thru 1.00-pre10 and 
> possibly earlier.
>
> I have been unable to get busybox modprobe to work on 2.6
>
> I went to the non-busybox (full blown) version of modprobe and it 
> works fine, no other changes.  So I think modprobe is either broken or 
> needs to be configured in a specific way that I have yet to discover 
> and is not sufficiently documented.


I suspect that busybox modprobe doesn't pass the full module path to 
insmod. If you issued "modprobe foo", for instance, standard modprobe 
would parse modules.dep and call "insmod /lib/modules/2.6.5/bar/foo.ko" 
or something like that. I think that busybox modprobe simply calls 
"insmod foo".

Regards,
Patrick