On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:11:49PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote: > I'm sending you round to gather examples because while it's intuitively > obvious that /etc/rc.modules is useful, it really has no reason to exist. The capabilities modules were mentioned a couple times, e.g. any module that has no detectable hardware or no hardware at all mapped to. > Yes, we all used it at one time or other, as a shortcut while a proper > solution was not available. I think I have a box which loads vt8231 > from /etc/rc.modules myself. That's all fine, and perhaps we ought to > keep it around forever. But making it more legitimate with /etc/modules.d > or some such has no reason. If you don't create a proper mechanism to channel these few issues you will have them wildering around in places where they do not belong. Is that really better? -- Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net
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