Re: /etc/modules comment is wrong

From: David Jardine (david_at_jardine.de)
Date: 05/21/05

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    On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 09:01:05AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
    > On Sat 21 May 05, 8:30 AM, Carl Fink <carl@fink.to> said:
    > > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 01:53:28PM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
    > > > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 03:25:21AM +0200, Jacobo221 wrote:
    > > > > In Debian Sarge, in /etc/modules out-of-the-box, the comments say that
    > > > > nything after '#' is ingored. But this is wrong. Only lines which BEGIN
    > > > > with '#' are ignored. This should be changed.
    > > >
    > > > Hmm. 'Comments begin with a "#", and everything on the line after
    > > > them are ignored', says mine.
    > >
    > > Yes, but in some languages the "start the comment here" string (for instance
    > > "//") can come at any point in the line, say after an executed statement.
    > > Jacobo is saying that the "#" only works a the beginning of a line.
    >
    > is that really true? you mean I can't have a line in /etc/modules that
    > looks like:
    >
    > lego # device driver for the lego mindstorms USB tower
    >
    > that's too bad if it's true.
    >

    No, it's not true. I've just tried it with:

    ide-scsi # 8139too

    and the first module is loaded but not the second.

    With:

    ide-scsi # just a comment
    8139too # just a comment

    both are loaded normally with no complaints about the comments.

    > pete
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