klibc - Jan 2006 - inclusion of alias handling in klibc insmod

Just curious if anyone has done anything similar, as I'd rather not
reporduce work.  I'm going to put alias handling (and only alias
handling) into a modified version of insmod.  The reason I'm doing
this is to aid in boot time module loading via aliases exposed in
sysfs.  Sure, I could include modprobe directly in the initramfs, but
it's a bit large, and I really only need alias resolution, not the
other parts of the syntax.

Would anyone else be interested in this?  Please let me know.

- Aaron

On Fri, Jan 27, 2006 at 03:40:25PM -0600, Aaron Griffin
wrote:
> Just curious if anyone has done anything similar, as I'd rather not
> reporduce work.  I'm going to put alias handling (and only alias
> handling) into a modified version of insmod.  The reason I'm doing
> this is to aid in boot time module loading via aliases exposed in
> sysfs.  Sure, I could include modprobe directly in the initramfs, but
> it's a bit large, and I really only need alias resolution, not the
> other parts of the syntax.
How will thie alias resolution handle the need to load dependant
modules?  That's why this is done in modprobe instead of insmod.

thanks,

greg k-h

Aaron Griffin wrote:
> Just curious if anyone has done anything similar, as I'd rather not
> reporduce work.  I'm going to put alias handling (and only alias
> handling) into a modified version of insmod.  The reason I'm doing
> this is to aid in boot time module loading via aliases exposed in
> sysfs.  Sure, I could include modprobe directly in the initramfs, but
> it's a bit large, and I really only need alias resolution, not the
> other parts of the syntax.
> 
> Would anyone else be interested in this?  Please let me know.
> 
> - Aaron
> 
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I did this last year...
http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/klibc/2005-May/000974.html

problems were fnmatch(), getopt_long(), index() and some
minor ELF stuff. I posted patches for all.

fnmatch():
I used the simplified version of udev.
Bad news: no support for flags
Good news: modprobe does not uses flags

getopt_long():
First version has a short cirquited version of getopt_long()
based on getopt() which simply ignores --long options.

problem is modprobe has functionality that is accesible only
through the long options.

Then I submitted a patch which was an actuall getopt_long() (BSD)
implementation without the GNUisms to save space but
it was rejected by the maintainer...

http://www.zytor.com/pipermail/klibc/2005-May/001007.html

IRC the minor issues index() and ELF stuff was accepted from
back then.

PS:
In retrospect I regret the index() thing I pushed back then.
I should have pushed it to the modules-init maintainer instead,
but I was unable to reach him in a public mailing and I didn't
want to send him personal mail for something like:
*** please use strchr() instead of index()

    .bill