Edit init.sun7i.rc

[adinu]

Hi guys,

I have a .ko module and I want android to load it on boot. It's my understandig that I need to add an insmod line in the init.sun7i.rc file. I pull the file out with adb pull, edit it and push it back in, but when I reboot, the file restores back to the original and the module doesn't load. If I manually insmod the module it works fine, but I would have to do it with every reboot.
Does anyone know a proper way to make persistent changes to the init.sun7i.rc file? Or maybe suggest another way to auto-load the module?

Thanks!

[dave-at-axon]

A few of us have tried to edit a number of the Android files and failed as they where in the boot sector but init.sun71.rc should work as I have done this before myself.

Failing that you may have to consider building the OS yourself as that way you get all the modifications you need.

[adinu]

On what image have you successfully edited init.sun7i.rc? I tried it with the NAND Android 4.2.2 Olimex provides and I could edit it but it restores the original file with every reboot, so it's useless.

I have built the OS myself and the module works fine, since I included the source code into the linux kernel. The thing is I wanted to also make it work with the original image from Olimex because everything works in that image, which they do NOT provide the source for... Your blog helped me a lot, by the way, so thank you for that and for your answer .