Re: busybox modprobe does not respect /etc/modprobe.d/ entries

Hi Erich;

On Do, 2020-09-10 at 15:42 +0200, Erich Titl wrote:
> Hi Folks
> 
> I found a rather unpleasant behaviour in busybox's modprobe. It
> appears
> not to respect 'install' lines in files in /etc/modprobe.d.

Indeed a limitation of busybox AFAIK.

> This is annoying in the case of the module leds_gpio which may depend
> on
> the underlying gpio driver, but which is not depending on it in
> modules.dep (it cannot know what the dependency could be).
> 
> Ideas?

I usually add such "missing/unkown" modules in /etc/modules

kp

> cheers
> 
> ET
>