Bug 9676

Summary:	modprobe returns code is 0 on some errors, and 255 if it's alright
Product:	Busybox	Reporter:	yanosz <busybox>
Component:	Standard Compliance	Assignee:	unassigned
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	busybox-cvs
Priority:	P5
Version:	unspecified
Target Milestone:	---
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
Host:		Target:
Build:

Description yanosz 2017-02-27 15:35:18 UTC

System: Lede Linux 17.01.0
Busybox: 1.26.2

Is:
Loading non-existing modules is success:
root@LEDE:~# modprobe non-existing-module; echo $?
failed to find a module named non-existing-module
0
Loading existing modules is fail.
root@LEDE:~# modprobe nls_base; echo $?
nls_base is already loaded
255

Expected:
- Loading non-existing modules is fail
- Loading existing modules is success, unless --first-time is specified

Comment 1 Denys Vlasenko 2017-04-06 11:46:51 UTC

fixed in git, thanks.