Patch from Mike Snitzer <snitzer@gmail.com>:

Support for /etc/modprobe.conf (for 2.6 kernels) should likely be added
to bb's modprobe, see attached patch.

modprobe.conf is just a (even simpler) variant of modules.conf

1 files changed, 6 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/modutils/modprobe.c b/modutils/modprobe.c
index c584d8a61..612e33a9e 100644
--- a/modutils/modprobe.c
+++ b/modutils/modprobe.c
@@ -275,9 +275,12 @@ static struct dep_t *build_dep ( void )
 
         // alias parsing is not 100% correct (no correct handling of continuation lines within an alias) !
 
-        if (( fd = open ( "/etc/modules.conf", O_RDONLY )) < 0 )
-                if (( fd = open ( "/etc/conf.modules", O_RDONLY )) < 0 )
-                        return first;
+#if defined(CONFIG_FEATURE_2_6_MODULES)
+        if (( fd = open ( "/etc/modprobe.conf", O_RDONLY )) < 0 )
+#endif
+                if (( fd = open ( "/etc/modules.conf", O_RDONLY )) < 0 )
+                        if (( fd = open ( "/etc/conf.modules", O_RDONLY )) < 0 )
+                                return first;
 
         continuation_line = 0;
         while ( reads ( fd, buffer, sizeof( buffer ))) {