On Tuesday 05 May 2009 16:58:42 Robby Workman wrote: > On Tue, 5 May 2009, Robby Workman wrote: > > On Tue, 5 May 2009, Alan Jenkins wrote: > >> On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 2:43 AM, Robby Workman wrote: > >>> generate-modprobe.conf | 281 > >>> ------------------------------------------------ > >> > >> If you look at "git-log generate-modprobe.conf", you see it's had > >> multiple patches submitted this year. Now, given the history of m-i-t > >> development, it's possible that the patches were just extremely > >> delayed and no-one will care if you delete it. But I think you should > >> CC the patch authors and find out why they cared enough to submit them > > > > Okay, fair enough, but it's my understanding that all of the backwards > > compat stuff for older modutils is being removed, and since part of the > > aim of this patchset was to help in that regard, generate-modprobe.conf > > had to go. :-) I'm hoping Jon will weigh in on this, but if not, I'll > > check with the other authors. > > CC'd Martin Schlemmer and Mike Frysinger on this ugh, m-i-t changed mailing lists yet again w/out any notice. can someone please post an announce to the old mailing list. > guys, do you know of > some reason that this should stay? From what I've gathered on IRC with > Jon and others, all of the backwards-compat stuff with old modutils is > essentially gone (or will be soon), so I don't see a reason for the > generate-modprobe.conf file to hang around. Perhaps I'm missing something > though, so here's your chance :-) ideally, genereate-modprobe.conf should go away, but there are still packages out there that only do /etc/modules.d/. if we assume distros are taking care of them to convert to modprobe.d/, then no, we no longer need generate- modprobe.conf. Gentoo has converted most packages, but there's still a small handful left ... -mike
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