On 12/12/05, Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm still trying to figure out what exactly coldplug does. Is it a > replacement for /etc/modules.autoload.d ?
Coldplug scans system busses, looking for hardware, and attempting to load any modules available for that hardware. It does this by running the scripts /etc/hotplug/*.rc. So for example /etc/hotplug/pci.rc scans /sys/bus/pci/devices, looking for devices. For each device it finds, it looks at /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.pcimap to see if there is a module available for that device. If there is, the script tries to load it. So yes, there is some overlap with /etc/modules.autoload.d/, because you can load these drivers there. The difference is that coldplug is limited to just hardware device drivers. Other drivers (like security drivers, io schedulers, or power management drivers) cannot be loaded this way, so you have to use the modules.autoload.d/ method. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
