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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