-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 05:56:08AM EST, Dawes, Stephen wrote: > All, > > Can someone tell me what tells Linux which modules to load at boot time? > I am asking because I see some modules that are loaded that I don't need > loading, because I don't use the related application/protocol. > For example: > I don't use Bluetooth, so I don't need the Bluetooth module loaded. > > Any help is appreciated. Most distributions these days either use udev or hotplug. If the kernel is 2.6.15 or newer, there is a good chance that it is exclusively udev. As for preventing modules from loading, it depends on how your system has module-init-tools set up. On debian/ubuntu, there is a series of blacklist files in /etc/modprobe.d that you wmight want to look at. Just add the modules to any of those files, and they won't be loaded when the system boots. If you are using hotplug, I think /etc/hotplug.d/blacklist is the file you want. hth - -- Luke Yelavich GPG key: 0xD06320CE (http://www.themuso.com/themuso-gpg-key.txt) Email & MSN: themuso at themuso.com ICQ: 18444344 Jabber: themuso at jabber.org.au -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFEdi5HjVefwtBjIM4RAuYTAJ9VOwga67vLHXKP+zPW1p8IC4JvSACgu7Zn Zf4jiTpgyWrPpzmdewqQahE= =YVT+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
