On Wed, Aug 02, 2017 at 07:58:05PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Wed, 2017-08-02 at 12:26 +1000, Vincent McIntyre wrote:
> > Package: hw-detect
> > Version: 1.124
> > Severity: normal
> > Tags: patch
> >
> > I keep seeing this in installer logs, back to jessie.
> >
> > Aug 2 01:52:11 main-menu[193]: (process:224): modprobe: invalid option --
> > 'l'
> >
> >
> > I rated this normal rather than minor because the way it is working
> > now the is_available() function always returns 1 (failure)
> >
> > My suggestion is to use modinfo instead.
> > This will return multiline output inside the quotes but
> > a couple of tests suggests that is ok.
> > It does fail with some modules (nvidia), not sure if we care.
> >
> > diff --git a/hw-detect.sh b/hw-detect.sh
> > index 7977814..d8196c1 100755
> > --- a/hw-detect.sh
> > +++ b/hw-detect.sh
> > @@ -43,7 +43,7 @@ is_not_loaded() {
> > }
> >
> > is_available () {
> > - [ "$(modprobe -l $1)" ] || return 1
> > + [ "$(modinfo $1)" ] || return 1
> > }
>
> But this still prints error messages for missing modules. I think the
> function should be implemented as:
>
> is_available () {
> modprobe -qn "$1"
> }
>
That seems much better, can someone please apply Ben's version?
Thanks for tickling this Holger.
Cheers
Vince
