Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:39:31 -0800 | From | Stephen Hemminger <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] Backward compatibility and WAN netdev configuration |
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On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:33:47 +0100 Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:
> md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > > Why you cannot support autoloading the modules when a specific protocol > > is needed? > > I probably could but it would complicate things a bit - currently only > the protocol module knows about existence of its protocol. > > I will look at it, though. Thanks.
The modern way is to not have any entries in modprobe.conf, and do all the module loading via kernel module_aliases. Modprobe.conf is then reserved for handling workarounds for special cases -- Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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