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| -rw-r--r-- | modutils/modprobe-small.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/modutils/modprobe-small.c b/modutils/modprobe-small.c index e2359d0..8ef9101 100644 --- a/modutils/modprobe-small.c +++ b/modutils/modprobe-small.c @@ -573,6 +573,14 @@ static void process_module(char *name, const char *cmdline_options) info = find_alias(name); } +// Problem here: there can be more than one module +// for the given alias. For example, +// "pci:v00008086d00007010sv00000000sd00000000bc01sc01i80" matches +// ata_piix because it has an alias "pci:v00008086d00007010sv*sd*bc*sc*i*" +// and ata_generic, it has an alias "alias=pci:v*d*sv*sd*bc01sc01i*" +// Standard modprobe would load them both. +// In this code, find_alias() returns only the first matching module. + /* rmmod? unload it by name */ if (is_rmmod) { if (delete_module(name, O_NONBLOCK | O_EXCL) != 0 |