--- /dev/null
+/*
+ * Ceph - scalable distributed file system
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 Inktank Storage, Inc.
+ *
+ * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License version 2.1, as published by the Free Software
+ * Foundation. See file COPYING.
+ *
+ */
+
+#include <errno.h>
+#include <stdio.h>
+#include <stdlib.h>
+#include <string.h>
+#include <sys/wait.h>
+#include <unistd.h>
+
+/*
+ * TODO: Switch to libkmod when we abandon older platforms. The APIs
+ * we want are:
+ *
+ * - kmod_module_new_from_name() for obtaining handles;
+ * - kmod_module_probe_insert_module() for module_load();
+ * - kmod_module_get_info(), kmod_module_info_get_{key,value}() for
+ * module_has_param().
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Return command's exit status or -1 on error.
+ */
+static int run_command(const char *command)
+{
+ int status;
+
+ status = system(command);
+ if (status >= 0 && WIFEXITED(status))
+ return WEXITSTATUS(status);
+
+ if (status < 0) {
+ char error_buf[80];
+ fprintf(stderr, "couldn't run '%s': %s\n", command,
+ strerror_r(errno, error_buf, sizeof(error_buf)));
+ } else if (WIFSIGNALED(status)) {
+ fprintf(stderr, "'%s' killed by signal %d\n", command,
+ WTERMSIG(status));
+ } else {
+ fprintf(stderr, "weird status from '%s': %d\n", command,
+ status);
+ }
+
+ return -1;
+}
+
+int module_has_param(const char *module, const char *param)
+{
+ char command[128];
+
+ snprintf(command, sizeof(command),
+ "/sbin/modinfo -F parm %s | /bin/grep -q ^%s:",
+ module, param);
+
+ return run_command(command) == 0;
+}
+
+int module_load(const char *module, const char *options)
+{
+ char command[128];
+
+ snprintf(command, sizeof(command), "/sbin/modprobe %s %s",
+ module, (options ? options : ""));
+
+ return run_command(command);
+}
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+/*
+ * Ceph - scalable distributed file system
+ *
+ * Copyright (C) 2014 Inktank Storage, Inc.
+ *
+ * This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public
+ * License version 2.1, as published by the Free Software
+ * Foundation. See file COPYING.
+ *
+ */
+
+#ifndef CEPH_MODULE_H
+#define CEPH_MODULE_H
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif
+
+int module_has_param(const char *module, const char *param);
+int module_load(const char *module, const char *options);
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif
+
+#endif /* CEPH_MODULE_H */