[Buildroot] [git commit] kmod: add option to install module utilities

Thomas Petazzoni thomas.petazzoni at free-electrons.com
Thu Mar 22 15:47:45 UTC 2012


Le Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:39:53 +0100,
Peter Korsgaard <jacmet at sunsite.dk> a écrit :

> Sooner or later we should, but I'm not sure if kmod is mature enough to
> do it yet. I actually very rarely use kernel modules, perhaps someone
> else knows more about it?

According to the kmod talk at ELC, kmod is now a complete replacement
for module-init-tools, and module-init-tools are deprecated, as Maxime
said. So all distributions are likely to switch to kmod rather soon.

Regards,

Thomas
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