more updates

Sun May  8 16:31:32 2005  Søren Sandmann  <sandmann@redhat.com>

        * TODO: more updates

        * sysprof.c: Try loading the module before complaining

ChangeLog

@@ -1,3 +1,9 @@
+Sun May  8 16:31:32 2005  Søren Sandmann  <sandmann@redhat.com>
+
+	* TODO: more updates
+
+	* sysprof.c: Try loading the module before complaining
+
 Sun May  8 15:45:08 2005  Søren Sandmann  <sandmann@redhat.com>
 
 	* sysprof-module.c (do_generate): Restore lost wake_up().

TODO

@@ -6,26 +6,16 @@ Before 1.0:
 
 * Interface
 	- If the current profile has a name, display it in the title bar
-	- Sould just install the kernel module if it running as root, pop up
-	  a dialog if not. Note we must be able to start without module now, 
-	  since it is useful to just load profiles from disk.
-		- Is there a portable way of asking for the root password?
-		- Install a small suid program that only inserts the module?
-			(instant security hole ..)
         - hook up menu items view/start etc (or possibly get rid of them or
 	  move them)
 	- Consider expanding a few more levels of a new descendants tree 
 
 * Build system
-	- Need to make "make install" work (how do you know where to install
-	  kernel modules?)
-		- in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/
-		- need to run depmod as root after that
-		- Then modprobe run as root should correctly find it.
+	- Find out if that PREFIX business in Makefile was really such
+	  a great idea.
 	- Find out what distributions it actually works on
 	    (ask for sucess/failure-stories in 0.9.x releases)
 	- auto*?
-	- .desktop file
 
 Before 1.2:
 
@@ -158,6 +148,9 @@ http://www.linuxbase.org/spec/booksets/LSB-Embedded/LSB-Embedded/ehframe.html
 
 Later:
 
+- .desktop file
+	[Is this worth it? You will often want to start it as root, 
+	 and you will need to insert the module from the command line]
 - Applications should be able to say "start profiling", "stop profiling"
   so that you can limit the profiling to specific areas.
 
@@ -252,6 +245,18 @@ Later:
 
 DONE:
 
+- Sould just install the kernel module if it running as root, pop up
+  a dialog if not. Note we must be able to start without module now, 
+  since it is useful to just load profiles from disk.
+	- Is there a portable way of asking for the root password?
+	- Install a small suid program that only inserts the module?
+		(instant security hole ..)
+- Need to make "make install" work (how do you know where to install
+  kernel modules?)
+	- in /lib/modules/`uname -r`/kernel/drivers/
+	- need to run depmod as root after that
+	- Then modprobe run as root should correctly find it.
+
 - grep FIXME
 
 - give profiles on the command line

sysprof.c

@@ -430,6 +430,15 @@ sorry (GtkWidget *parent_window,
     gtk_widget_destroy (dialog);
 }
 
+
+static gboolean
+load_module (void)
+{
+    int retval = system ("/sbin/modprobe sysprof-module");
+
+    return (retval == 0);
+}
+
 static void
 on_start_toggled (GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data)
 {
@@ -441,19 +450,28 @@ on_start_toggled (GtkWidget *widget, gpointer data)
 
     if (app->input_fd == -1)
     {
-	int fd = open ("/proc/sysprof-trace", O_RDONLY);
+	int fd;
+
+	fd = open ("/proc/sysprof-trace", O_RDONLY);
 	if (fd < 0)
 	{
-	    sorry (app->main_window,
-		   "Can't open /proc/sysprof-trace. You need to insert\n"
-		   "the sysprof kernel module. Type\n"
-		   "\n"
-		   "       modprobe sysprof-module\n"
-		   "\n"
-		   "as root.");
+	    load_module();
 
-	    update_sensitivity (app);
-	    return;
+	    fd = open ("/proc/sysprof-trace", O_RDONLY);
+
+	    if (fd < 0)
+	    {
+		sorry (app->main_window,
+		       "Can't open /proc/sysprof-trace. You need to insert\n"
+		       "the sysprof kernel module. Run\n"
+		       "\n"
+		       "       modprobe sysprof-module\n"
+		       "\n"
+		       "as root.");
+		
+		update_sensitivity (app);
+		return;
+	    }
 	}
 
 	app->input_fd = fd;