On 3/4/12 2:15 PM, Felix Fietkau wrote: > On 2012-03-04 10:00 PM, Philip Prindeville wrote: >> I'm trying to write some scripts to help out with debugging kernel traces, >> etc. for people who aren't used to doing such, trying to automate everything >> as much as possible. >> >> I've identified a need to use modinfo, but just selecting >> CONFIG_BUSYBOX_CONFIG_MODINFO=y doesn't do it since we don't build and >> install modules.dep in the kernel. >> >> root@OpenWrt:/# modinfo crc_ccitt >> modinfo: can't open '/lib/modules/3.2.2/modules.dep': No such file or >> directory >> root@OpenWrt:/# >> >> For, at most 100 modules or so, the file size shouldn't be too >> objectionable, and as a text file with a lot of repetition it should >> compress down well on the squashfs. >> >> Can we add support for this? It's a matter of building an external kernel >> target, right? modpost or whatever? > What would you even need modinfo for? I've never needed it for debugging > traces in kernel modules, nor do I think it should be enabled by default. > > - Felix
See the Alix thread about generating a "add-symbol-file ..." script automatically from modinfo + /proc/modules + sed... _______________________________________________ openwrt-devel mailing list openwrt-devel@lists.openwrt.org https://lists.openwrt.org/mailman/listinfo/openwrt-devel
