sön 2005-04-03 klockan 13:26 +0200 skrev Axel Thimm: > Hi, > > what is the recommended way to automatically load some modules upon > bootup? The "correct" way to autload modules would really be to load-on-demand, which is (as you probably know) configured in /etc/modprobe.conf. The art of aliasing has always been a bit obscure, imo. As far as I understand, you can load-on-demand when accessing /dev files based on char-major, for example alias char-major-195 nvidia which would load the nvidia module when any /dev/nvidia* device is accessed (they have char-major 195). But then there are things like "alias sound-slot-0 foo" and "alias eth0 bar", that don't have a corresponding /dev node...I have no idea how that works really. If anyone knows a good place to read up on that, I'd be grateful. > If there is no better mechanism, then please consider shipping an > /etc/rc.modules that sources in /etc/rc.modules.d/* or similar, so > packages can simply drop in a module loading script. I'd like to see (and this has been suggested before) an /etc/modprobe.conf.d/, where modprobe.conf snippets can be placed. It would make 3:rd party kernel module packaging easier and cleaner. /Peter
