Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 16 Feb 2000 00:35:01 -0500 | From | willy@thepuffi ... | Subject | Re: 2.3.43 breaks pppd! (SOLVED, possible config gotcha) |
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On Tue, Feb 15, 2000 at 05:33:42PM -0500, Paul Barton-Davis wrote: > >But you haven't _told_ modprobe about the dependencies involved here. > >You're right that it can't be worked out automatically, but we have > >static information in /etc/modules.conf; for example the post-install > >and pre-remove options have the right functionality here, as I understand > >the problem. > > I agree with you that the functionality is there. However, both the > PPP driver and pppd have been written and documented in a way that > means, as we both agree, that makes it hard or impossible to figure > out the dependencies without hunting through the source code. I > suspect that they are not alone in that trait. A tool like modprobe is > not particularly useful if you can't figure out what to tell it.
Right. So this information should be in the sample modules.conf that I think Keith Owens was talking about maintaining.. Keith?
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