Re: A modules question
On Sun, 25 Feb 2001, mike polniak wrote:
>Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
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>> again, just for my own curiosity, do other distributions also autoload
>> modules on boot using /etc/modules?
Yes.
> I don't think other distros have an update-modules etc., but i
What does update-modules do with /etc/modules?
>just don't know exactly how they do it. Take a look at the script for
>modutils in /etc/init.d. Its one of the first scripts run from sysinit.
> It runs depmod and echos "Claculating module dependencies..."
>just before modprobe loads modules from /etc/modules.
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