On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:23, Bruno Wolff III <bruno@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:37:16 +0100, > Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 08:09:51AM -0500, Bruno Wolff III wrote: >> > On Tue, Aug 30, 2011 at 14:26:39 +0100, >> > Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > > >> > > Or just add floppy-support and analog-joystick-support packages that >> > > include appropriate modprobe.conf fragments, and have documentation that >> > > instructs the user to install them. >> > >> > To make this more precise, woulf the appropriate way to do this would be to >> > perhaps put floppy.conf or joystick.conf in /etc/modprode.d? >> > With a post install script to run modprobe manually? >> >> That seems like it'd work. > > I'll need to test it. Right now I use explicit modprobe commands in > rc.local, which isn't good for packages. I looked at modprobe.conf > documentation and it doesn't seem like it uses those files to determine > what to load, only what to do if it is loaded. So it may be that udev > is really the correct place to do things. > > I'll investigate that. Once I know the right thing to do, the packaging > should be pretty easy. "man modules-load.d" looks promising too. -- There are 10 kinds of people in the world: Those who understand binary and those who don't... -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
