10.11.2010 01:07, KP Kirchdoerfer пишет:
> Am Dienstag, 9. November 2010, 23:46:50 schrieb Andrew:
>> 09.11.2010 23:52, Erich Titl пишет:
>>> on 09.11.2010 21:45, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote:
>>>> Am Dienstag, 9. November 2010, 16:27:52 schrieb Andrew:
>>>>> 09.11.2010 00:41, KP Kirchdoerfer пишет:
>>>>>> Every other, possible intrusive, change should IMHO better moved to
>>>>>> 4.1 - let's make use of Trac to not forget our plans and ideas.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> jm2c
>>>>>> kp
>>>>> IMHO we need to do some small modifications to base system  before
>>>>> freezing it - at least, today I discovered that busybox's modprobe can
>>>>> load modules with parameters if they are specified into
>>>>> /etc/modules/<module_name>   - this is very suitable for NICs and so on.
>>>>> Unfortunatelly, current distro has file named /etc/modules - so that
>>>>> feature can't be used. IMHO we need to replace it's name to, for ex.,
>>>>> modules.conf.
>>>> This is definitely something which is important, if that's the only way
>>>> to support modules parameter.
>>> And turns upgrades into a nightmare, let's face it, this is not LEAF
>>> anymore, we might just as well use any stripped down Debian soon.
>> Why you think so?
>> Now /etc/modules is almost empty (it only has iptables and ppp modules;
>> iptables modules looks like unnecessary - main modules are loaded by
>> daemon, other modules - when they really needed, possible - there will
>> be specified something exotic lire nf_nat_pptp).
>> And if we renamed it to modules.conf - it will not cause much headache
>> for 3.x users.
>> /etc/modules/ directory is really needed for some NIC drivers (it isn't
>> enough good to force driver loading with parameters in current
>> /etc/modules), and for iptables modules like nf_conntrack (it's hashsize
>> option).
> Andrew;
> just to be shure and for clarification:
> Is that all related and needed to some sort of "autoloading of modules" by
> "hwdetect" or can't we load modules as in 3.x with parameters given in
> /etc/modules?
>
> kp
This is needed for auto-loading modules (by hwdetect, by iptables 
request, and so on). And sometimes is very useful (nf_conntrack module 
is such example).
And I think that it isn't right to load module when it needs module 
options via /etc/modules if it can be loaded automatically :)

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