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
prev parent 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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