On Mon, Apr 04, 2005 at 10:56:03AM +0200, Peter Backlund wrote: > 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). Not all modules have a /dev entry, think capabilities (if built as a module, not the case in RH kernels, yet). And udev doesn't make it really easy on you to depend on /dev entries. In fact udev discourages usage of static entries (that's its purpose after all). > 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. Check the init scripts (mainly rc.sysinit), the userland explicitely probes these, or even greps through modprobe's dumped config. Also try running kmodule. > > 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. I second that, it would solve another (also very important) problem, paired to the one mentioned here. > It would make 3:rd party kernel module packaging easier and cleaner. Or even kudzu's and friends' /etc/modprobe.conf modifications. I'm always confused when system-config-network rewrites my main /etc/modprobe.conf. -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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