Re: /etc/modules comment is wrong
On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 09:01:05AM -0400, Peter Jay Salzman wrote:
> On Sat 21 May 05, 8:30 AM, Carl Fink <carl@fink.to> said:
> > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 01:53:28PM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> > > On Sat, May 21, 2005 at 03:25:21AM +0200, Jacobo221 wrote:
> > > > In Debian Sarge, in /etc/modules out-of-the-box, the comments say that
> > > > nything after '#' is ingored. But this is wrong. Only lines which BEGIN
> > > > with '#' are ignored. This should be changed.
> > >
> > > Hmm. 'Comments begin with a "#", and everything on the line after
> > > them are ignored', says mine.
> >
> > Yes, but in some languages the "start the comment here" string (for instance
> > "//") can come at any point in the line, say after an executed statement.
> > Jacobo is saying that the "#" only works a the beginning of a line.
>
> is that really true? you mean I can't have a line in /etc/modules that
> looks like:
>
> lego # device driver for the lego mindstorms USB tower
>
> that's too bad if it's true.
>
No, it's not true. I've just tried it with:
ide-scsi # 8139too
and the first module is loaded but not the second.
With:
ide-scsi # just a comment
8139too # just a comment
both are loaded normally with no complaints about the comments.
> pete
>
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