Proper way to autoload modules (/etc/rc.modules)?

Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams ivazquez at ivazquez.net
Sun Apr 3 16:16:42 UTC 2005


On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 13:26 +0200, Axel Thimm wrote:
> This mechanism looks fine to me, but for one it says "backward
> compatibility", so there must be some more modern approach, and
> secondly it is sourcing in one file only, e.g. autoloading would have
> to be edited instead of dropped in.

Editing rc.sysinit around line 150 or so is the "modern" way, but it is
still ugly.

> If there is no better mechanism, then please consider shipping an
> /etc/rc.modules that sources in /etc/rc.modules.d/* or similar, so
> packages can simply drop in a module loading script.

+1

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