From modutils-2.2.2-pre6: - Are there more optimizations to do for handling meta-characters? Example: look for $VAR in the environment instead of "/bin/echo" - Check for full (and consistent) set of options for all apps, especially depmod vs. modprobe (and insmod too) Remaining from modutils-2.1.121: insmod: - Persistant module parameters. util: (alias.h) insmod: (modprobe.c) depmod: (depmod.c) - Finalize MODULE_SUPPORTED_DEVICE info so that we can replace the hardcoded alias array with info gleened from the modules themselves. * Bjorn says: One way is to use the "include" directive... Otherwise, an extension to the modules.dep file format could handle most of this problem: "/lib/modules/.../isofs.o: [type=fs device=iso9660] dependencies" config file: - Enable _really_ fine module selection by looking at $BOOTFILE or maybe kernel build number for the benefit of kernel hackers. * Bjorn says: This is mostly solved with the "include", "define" and "if" directives for /etc/modules.conf. Note that the kmod environment to modprobe is _very_ sparse...