Bug#60887: pcmcia modules and other things
On Fri, Mar 24, 2000 at 04:38:35PM +1100, Robert Browne wrote:
> Adam Di Carlo scribbled out these words:
> > Robert Browne <rbrowne@alphalink.com.au> writes:
> >
> > > Randolph Chung scribbled out these words:
> > > > > I requested not to install any modules. When i exited module screen,
> > > > > it still copied all the modules from drivers.tgz
> > > >
> > > > not a bug -- modules are always copied onto your harddisk.
> > >
> > > Fair enough, but one of the last steps should delete the modules from
> > > /lib/modules/2.2.x/.
> >
> > Why should it do that?
>
> When i request not to install any modules, i would expect no modules
> to be installed.
How did you request for no modules to be installed? You only did not configure
any modules to be loaded, unless you know of some other menu I have not seen.
Using the menu Configure Device Driver Modules does just what it says, it sets
which modules to force load using /etc/modules. For modules that the user does
not want to force load, they should not select them here but instead put them
in a file under the /etc/modutils directory after installation is finished.
They then have to run update-modules. To automatically delete the modules not
selected in the Configure Device Driver Modules menu would be a very bad thing
in general. I hope what I said above makes sense (it is late when I am writing
this).
-Chris Cheney (calc)
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