[patch] call depmod at runtime to workaround busybox depmod -b bug

0001-linuxrc-add-depmod-call-as-workaround-for-missing-mo.patch (text/plain), 1.63 KB, created by Fabio Erculiani (RETIRED) on 2013-06-06 16:45:31 UTC

From 5755998c09b1f993106659ad3ccd9272cebc5ee1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Fabio Erculiani <[e-mail]>
Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2013 18:43:54 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] linuxrc: add depmod call as workaround for missing
 modules.dep.bb

busybox depmod -b is broken, and busybox modprobe does not seem
to correctly deal with module dependencies.
See bug #472312
---
 defaults/initrd.scripts | 16 ++++++++++++++++
 defaults/linuxrc        |  7 +++++++
 2 files changed, 23 insertions(+)

diff --git a/defaults/initrd.scripts b/defaults/initrd.scripts
index 9b0e899..14378df 100644
--- a/defaults/initrd.scripts
+++ b/defaults/initrd.scripts
@@ -2,6 +2,22 @@
 
 . /etc/initrd.defaults
 
+# We should ship the initramfs with modules.dep.bb
+# But current busybox depmod has broken -b support
+# so we can't do that at build time, unless we want
+# to chroot into the initramfs root, which is much more
+# fragile. See bug #472312
+busybox_depmod_workaround() {
+	local depmod_args
+	if [ -n "${DEBUG}" ]
+	then
+		depmod_args="-v"
+	elif [ -n "${QUIET}" ]; then
+		depmod_args="-q"
+	fi
+	depmod ${depmod_args}
+}
+
 modules_load() {
 	for module in $*
 	do
diff --git a/defaults/linuxrc b/defaults/linuxrc
index 9ea305b..ad6af4b 100644
--- a/defaults/linuxrc
+++ b/defaults/linuxrc
@@ -320,6 +320,13 @@ mount_devfs
 # Mount sysfs
 mount_sysfs
 
+# We should ship the initramfs with modules.dep.bb
+# But current busybox depmod has broken -b support
+# so we can't do that at build time, unless we want
+# to chroot into the initramfs root, which is much more
+# fragile. See bug #472312
+busybox_depmod_workaround
+
 # Initialize mdev
 good_msg 'Activating mdev'
 
-- 
1.8.2.1