kernel 2.6.X. This feature is useful to load modules on-demand, to
minimise kernel memory footprint and power consumption.
If you have configure properly /etc/modprobes.conf, a simple "ifconfig eth0" will load the appropriate network driver. Kernel calls modprobe, which does the insmod.
The fix is pretty safe, when calling insmod for 2.6.X kernel, we don't pass offending parameters. Note that in the BusyBox context, a lot of those flags don't make sense and just add bloat, so I would not really recommend implementing them.
Patch is attached. I made the patch for busybox-1.00 and fully tested there, but I've verified that it applies smoothly and compile with the 02-june-05 snapshot.
Jean
busybox-kmod-2.patch [^] (2,555 bytes) 06-02-05 14:55 
