Re: Newbish Q: Why modprobe.d *and* modutils?
Hello
Derrick 'dman' Hudson (<dman@dman13.dyndns.org>) wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 18, 2004 at 07:01:55PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote:
> | On 18 Feb 2004 at 16:41:36, CW Harris wrote:
> |
> | > does 2.6 require both? I currently have kept both since I
> | > have a 2.4 kernel for a rescue boot, but I was planning to
> | > remove it eventually.
> |
> | With 2.6, update-modules uses /etc/modutils/* to form
> | /lib/modules/modprobe.conf, which is included in
> | /etc/modprobe.conf.
>
> Are you sure? I think, though I could be wrong, that the 2.6
> update-modules uses /etc/modprobe.d/*, not /etc/modutiles. I thought
> /etc/modutils is only for 2.4 (and earlier) kernels. A fairly quick
> look through the /sbin/update-modules script doesn't indicate any
> usage of /etc/modutils/*.
Yes, you are right. Kernel 2.6 uses /etc/modprobe.d (and if you use
update-modules, the contents are written to /lib/modules/modprobe.conf,
which is included in /etc/modprobe.conf).
best regards
Andreas Janssen (who compiled and installed Kernel 2.6 today)
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