rawhide report: 20050807 changes

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 02:38:15PM -0400, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:09:09AM +0200, 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 ;)
> 
> In this case I think the kernel really is being far too anal about
> its checking.

No argument there. "Be liberal in what you accept", esp if it's whitespace

> We could (and probably should) fix up kudzu to do as
> you suggest, but if someone hand edits their modprobe.conf,

but sanatizing the modprobe.conf is probably a good idea as well; things
will keep comming back otherwise (also if Rusty listened to his hamster too
much and decides to not agree with you this is the only solution)