Austin Gonyou wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 17:27, Jan Hudec wrote: > > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 03:38:06PM -0400, Michael Zhu wrote: > > > Hi, I built a kernel module. I can load it into the > > > kernle using insmod command. But each time when I > > > reboot my computer I couldn't find it any more. I mean > > > I need to use the insmod to load the module each time > > > I reboot the computer. How can I modify the > > > configuration so that the Linux OS can load my module > > > automatically during reboot? I need to copy my module > > > to the following directory? > > > /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/ > > > > Kernel does not seek for modules to load in any way. Actually, in usual > > installation there are tons of modules compiled an mostly unused. You > > must put the insmod command (or better modprobe command) somewhere in > > the init scripts. Since I expect your installation is RedHat (the kernel > > version looks like a RedHat one), there should already be one a it > > should be loading all modules listed in /etc/modules.conf (not sure abou > > the exact name - I don't have RedHat). > > Isn't that what modules.conf (conf.modules on some) is for though? To > have lists of available devices and load modules if their services are > used?(i.e. ifup eth0, but eth0 doesn't exist at boot time, so ifup calls > a utility that loads the module, then ifup continues to run) > The utility is built into the kernel, it's called kmod and uses /etc/modules.conf as it's config file.... Mark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
