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From: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
To: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>
Cc: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri),
	netdev@vger.kernel.org, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] Backward compatibility and WAN netdev configuration
Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:39:31 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060201103931.08ad581d@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3r76n3p4k.fsf@defiant.localdomain>

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:33:47 +0100
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> wrote:

> md@Linux.IT (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 <shemminger@osdl.org>
OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger

      reply	other threads:[~2006-02-01 18:39 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-01 10:50 Krzysztof Halasa
2006-02-01 14:49 ` Marco d'Itri
2006-02-01 18:33   ` Krzysztof Halasa
2006-02-01 18:39     ` Stephen Hemminger [this message]

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