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[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:45:51PM -0400, Jeremy Katz wrote:
 > Arjan van de Ven wrote:
 > >On Mon, 2005-08-08 at 00:38 -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
 > >>The fact that it reports the unknown param as `' is disconcerting.
 > >>ISTR that this change fell over if it met a modprobe.conf with
 > >>spaces at the end of a line. Can you check that yours hasn't
 > >>got any ? If that doesn't make the errors go away, post your
 > >>/etc/modprobe.conf, and I'll check the drivers to see which (if any)
 > >>of the params went away.
 > >
 > >kudzu has a script to rename kernel modules in modprobe.conf if they
 > >change name that the kernel spec calls... maybe we should teach that
 > >script to remove trailing whitespace as well ;)
 > 
 > This only runs when you install a new kernel, so it's probably not the 
 > right answer :-)
 > 
 > On the other hand, having module-init-tools do some cleanup if that's 
 > what the kernel expects might make sense.

Rusty fixed this up yesterday, (in a better way than my 'drop the patch
that broke it' approach). The next kernels that go out will ignore
the whitespace, and continue to warn about obsolete parameters.

		Dave