Re: [PATCH] kconfig: dont hardcode path to lsmod

From: John Kacur
Date: Tue Jan 19 2010 - 12:42:21 EST


On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 6:23 PM, Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 09:25, Américo Wang wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 01:52:00AM -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>>>The lsmod utility has always been installed into /bin with the newer
>>>module-init-tools package, so let lsmod be found via PATH instead of
>>>hardcoding the old modutils /sbin path.
>>>
>>
>> Some distro doesn't set /sbin to PATH, so for me a better solution
>> would be making PATH contain /sbin, and then use "lsmod".
>
> read my changelog -- module-init-tools has always installed into /bin.
>  so what your distro does with /sbin doesnt matter.
> -mike
> --

I prefer my patches work for the real-world instead of the "so what
your distro does doesn't matter" world.
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