[Toybox] Differences between modinfo in toybox and standard version

[idunham at lavabit.com]

On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 07:36:18PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> On 04/22/2013 05:40:28 PM, Isaac Dunham wrote:
> >Hello,
> >The kernel maps all occurences of '-' in module names to '_', so
> >that if you load a module such as snd-pcm-oss.ko or phc-k8.ko, it
> >is presented by lsmod and /proc/modules as module snd_pcm_oss or
> >phc_k8.
> >Modinfo from module-init-tools makes up for that by reversing the
> >logic and treating '-' and '_' as equivalent, while toybox takes
> >only the string passed.
> 
> Happy to accept patches, but I'm not currently up to speed on the
> corner cases of module loading and haven't got spare brain to fit it
> in just now. (If I read through it in the half hour this starbucks
> is still open, I won't finish and will forget what I read by
> morning.)

Understood.
It's not a major issue for me, especially given that I can't boot a
(straight | mostly) toybox system yet.

> >Another difference is that standard modinfo is documented to
> >accept a filename
> >as a parameter (modinfo /path/to/module.ko).
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Isaac Dunham
> 
> I only recently added toys/pending and there are a number of third
> party contributions I never did properly triage and clean up.
> (login.c is another one...)
> 
> Should I move them into pending so we can track them?

Not really concerned about this part--however you see fit.

> Right now my aboriginal linux build is the main real world test for
> this code, and it doesn't do a modular build. (It also doesn't use
> login, it does oneit straight to a shell prompt instead.) Presumably
> the people who contributed it are using it, but then it works for
> them pretty much by definition...
> 
> Thanks for the heads up,
> 
> Rob