"When we are unsure, we ask for help" adding an ioctl to a file system

[Eric Shattow "Eprecocious"]

Did you update the initramfs?

$ sudo update-initramfs -u -k all

On Sun, Nov 7, 2010 at 3:08 PM, David Nicol <davidnicol at gmail.com> wrote:
> I have written a patch that adds a new (sponsored, hopefully
> mainline-track)  ioctl for a linux file system, but I am having
> difficulty getting my modification to appear in Ubuntu linux.
>
> My working theory is that I have not replaced the module for the file
> system in question, even though I have run the package installer on
> the resulting kpkg results, in the boot sequence.
>
> Another possibility is that there is a security layer that filters
> allowed IOCTLs and the new one must be added to a list.
>
> My question therefore is, where does the Maverick boot process find
> its kernel modules? (are they in the file system or in the initrd
> image?) Maybe the installation process for getting the modification
> into a production Ubuntu system is simply replacing the file system
> module, instead of replacing the whole kernel.
>
> Please advise.
>
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