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Description of problem:
is_available contains such code as:

   HOTPLUG=`cat /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug`
    echo "/bin/true" > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug
    modprobe $1 > /dev/null 2>&1 || return 1
    echo "$HOTPLUG"  > /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug

Not good if modprobe returns a non-zero exit status, which it quite
often does because of bug 116656.

The code right above that:

    alias=`modprobe -c | awk "/^(alias|install) $1 / { print \\$3 }"`
    if [ -z "$alias" -o "$alias" = "off" -o "$alias" = "/bin/true" ]; then

also fails with the new modprobe, per bug 116657.  alias will be set
to the module alias followed by /bin/true.

In general, none of this should matter, since we'll have already
loaded the modules, but if we haven't, this code will fail to do so.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
initscripts-7.46-1.1