Re: three questions about modules

[iwan@vvier.tudelft.nl (Iwan Mouwen)]

* Benjamin Black <bhb8@columbia.edu> [010422 21:35]:
> 1.) the default behavior for debian seems to be to run modprobe on all
> modules listed in /etc/modules at boot time, without -k (autoclean).  is
> there a way to change this behavior?

edit /etc/init.d/modutils


> 2.) i've looked through some of the kernel docs, but it seems that the
> only place i can find the names that the kernel uses to refer to
> devices, i.e. char-major-14 for sound, is in the documentation for each
> specific module, and most of the time it's not even listed there.  where
> can i find a list of all the names that the kernel uses for devices when
> it calls modprobe to load a module?

read <linux-src-dir>/Documentation/devices.txt