Re: module_info file

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Jan Hudec wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 12:17:30PM -0700, Ravi wrote:
> 
>>> My system is a RedHat 7.3 system.  I noticed
>>> in the /boot directory there is a module-conf
>>> file.  I was wondering if you knew of any information 
>>> or script on how to create that file.
>> 
>>  
>> Did you mean the 'module_info' file? I don't know what that file
>> does, but I'm sure you don't have to create/update it when you
>> rebuild the kernel. Or even if you want to boot with a different
>> kernel version.
> 
> 
> I don't _know_ it either (I don't use redhat), but it seems like some
> redhat management stuff keeps info about installed modules there. So I
> would expect this to be built by redhat kernel packages and possibly
> used by some init script.This is just a wild guess however.

 
Is it like having to read "man /boot/module_info" instead of 
"/etc/modules.conf". Then having to search for modprobe in the bootscript.
To see how the modules are loaded. Or IS THE MODULE_INFO FILE SOME OTHER TABLE ?

I have only SuSE 7.2.

Edward

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