Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] depmod: implement external directories support

From: Yauheni Kaliuta <yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com>
To: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.demarchi@intel.com>
Cc: linux-modules@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] depmod: implement external directories support
Date: Sat, 18 Mar 2017 23:46:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xunyshmagsw1.fsf@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20161123152339.27531-1-yauheni.kaliuta@redhat.com> (Yauheni Kaliuta's message of "Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:23:36 +0200")

Hi, Lucas!

Any feedback on that?

>>>>> On Wed, 23 Nov 2016 17:23:36 +0200, Yauheni Kaliuta  wrote:

 > Would it be possible to implement something like external
 > directories support in depmod (see PATCH 3 description).

 > I'll copy here the part:

 > This is a pretty simple extention of existing logic, since now
 > depmod already is able to:

 > a) scan modules with full path from command line without -a
 > switch;
 > b) detects broken symbol dependencies and broken modversions,
 > what assumes, that modules are already are not built for the
 > existing kernel.

 > Yauheni Kaliuta (3):
 >   depmod: create depmod dir independent search function
 >   depmod: search key: move builtin detection under the add function
 >   depmod: implement external directories support

 >  tools/depmod.c | 209 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------
 >  1 file changed, 175 insertions(+), 34 deletions(-)

 > -- 
 > 2.9.3

-- 
WBR,
Yauheni Kaliuta