Re: [RFC] Backward compatibility and WAN netdev configuration

On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:33:47 +0100
Krzysztof Halasa <khc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> md@xxxxxxxx (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@xxxxxxxx>
OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger
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