Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 30 Nov 2004 21:56:25 +0100 (MET) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: Misleading error message |
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>I compiled built-in support for iptables in my new 2.6.9 kernel, but when my >legacy firewall does a "modprobe ip_tables" , I get the startling message: >"FATAL: module ip_tables not found" . k
Linux Developers,
what would you think of say, a line added to modules' code that identifies compiled-in components? modprobe could then be adjusted to 1. try loading something.ko 2. looking for a component "something" within the compiled-in stuff
I'd imagine a module's init could look like:
int __init init_module(void) { ... register_static_module("ip_tables"); ... }
Or using some linker magic to generate a table/array full with strings to indicate their presence. (I though of kstrtab, which is, to my knowledge, also composed of multiple single symbols into one.)
Awaiting list feedback.
>A message like "Module ip_tables not needed; support already built in the >kernel" would be much more helpfull, as I see it.
modprobe should just return 0 as is with the case for already-loaded modules.
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