Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Mar 2020 06:55:30 +0100 | Subject | Re: [PATCH] kmod: make request_module() return an error when autoloading is disabled | From | Josh Triplett <> |
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On March 11, 2020 5:32:21 AM GMT+01:00, Luis Chamberlain <mcgrof@kernel.org> wrote: >On Tue, Mar 10, 2020 at 03:37:31PM -0700, Eric Biggers wrote: >> However, request_module() should also >> correctly return an error when it fails. So let's make it return >> -ENOENT, which matches the error when the modprobe binary doesn't >exist. > >This is a user experience change though, and I wouldn't have on my >radar >who would use this, and expects the old behaviour. Josh, would you by >chance?
I don't think this affects userspace. But I'd suggest Ben Hutchings (CCed).
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