Re: Newbish Q: Why modprobe.d *and* modutils?

From: Adam Aube (aaube01_at_baker.edu)
Date: 02/19/04

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    On 18 Feb 2004 at 16:41:36, CW Harris wrote:

    > does 2.6 require both? I currently have kept both since I
    > have a 2.4 kernel for a rescue boot, but I was planning to
    > remove it eventually.

    With 2.6, update-modules uses /etc/modutils/* to form
    /lib/modules/modprobe.conf, which is included in
    /etc/modprobe.conf.

    All this is for is some default system mappings. That's why
    you keep both, but don't have to worry about maintaining
    /etc/modutils.

    Adam 

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