On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:33:47 +0100
Krzysztof Halasa <[email protected]> wrote:
> [email protected] (Marco d'Itri) writes:
>
> > Why you cannot support autoloading the modules when a specific protocol
> > is needed?
>
> I probably could but it would complicate things a bit - currently only
> the protocol module knows about existence of its protocol.
>
> I will look at it, though. Thanks.
The modern way is to not have any entries in modprobe.conf, and do all
the module loading via kernel module_aliases. Modprobe.conf is then
reserved for handling workarounds for special cases
--
Stephen Hemminger <[email protected]>
OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger
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