On Thu, 2010-11-11 at 18:31 +0100, KP Kirchdoerfer wrote: > Hi; > > I've migrated from 3.x to 4.x and copied /etc/modules.conf to have a working > setup ASAP. Therefor I wasn't aware of the huge improvements in the modules > area. > > I start to realize that "modules autoloading" works better than I expected. > In > fact I thought running hwdetect is needed. But that's not the case. > My network card and it's dependencies are detected automatically; pppoe on > the > other hand not, ipv6 is loaded... > > Deploying LEAF Bering-uClibc 4 will shurely be easier, than it had been > before, but can someone (Andrew, David?), explain how it works? I mean why > are > some loaded (NIC), others like pppoe not? > > This will be a good chapter in the wiki :) > > kp
Hi kp, I am no expert, so I think we need Andrew to help here... I do know that Andrew has added logic in root.linuxrc (a.k.a. /init) for the *automatic* auto-loading, so looking at that might help you understand. My belief is that "hwdetect" is mainly for use where additional modules need to be copied from modules.tgz (because they are not in the initial moddb.lrp). I also do not understand where it is still necessary to specify modules manually. I have a follow-on question about the future of the /usr/sbin/build-modules script. This does not work (at least because of .o -> .ko) but it may still be useful to automatically copy modules like "tun" from modules.tgz based on these being listed in a file. I agree about the wiki! :-) I have in mind a summary of the automatic behaviour in the "Overview of the Startup Sequence", but "someone" also needs to document other aspects elsewhere. dMb ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Centralized Desktop Delivery: Dell and VMware Reference Architecture Simplifying enterprise desktop deployment and management using Dell EqualLogic storage and VMware View: A highly scalable, end-to-end client virtualization framework. Read more! http://p.sf.net/sfu/dell-eql-dev2dev _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
