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Subject: Re: 01/02: services: Allow modprobe to use "/etc/modprobe.d".
Date: Sun, 05 Apr 2020 23:15:03 +0200
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To: guix-devel@gnu.org, Danny Milosavljevic <dannym@scratchpost.org>, Brice Waegeneire <brice@waegenei.re>

Hi Danny & Brice,

Nice stuff!

guix-commits@gnu.org skribis:

> --- a/gnu/services.scm
> +++ b/gnu/services.scm
> @@ -580,6 +580,10 @@ ACTIVATION-SCRIPT-TYPE."
>                    #~(begin
>                        (setenv "LINUX_MODULE_DIRECTORY"
>                                "/run/booted-system/kernel/lib/modules")
> +                      ;; FIXME: Remove this crutch when the patch #40422,
> +                      ;; updating to kmod 27 is merged.
> +                      (setenv "MODPROBE_OPTIONS"
> +                              "-C /etc/modprobe.d")

[...]

> +  (services (cons* (service kernel-module-loader-service-type
> +                            '("ddcci" "ddcci_backlight"))
> +                   (simple-service 'ddcci-config etc-service-type
> +                                   (list `("modprobe.d/ddcci.conf"
> +                                           ,ddcci-config)))
> +                   %base-services))

Looking at this, I was wondering if it would be possible to not use
/etc/modprobe.d and instead have a way to tell the modprobe wrapper to
pass =E2=80=9C-C /gnu/store/=E2=80=A6-modprobe.d=E2=80=9D, which would cont=
ain the right thing.

Thoughts?

Ludo=E2=80=99.