On Fri, 2005-07-08 at 02:50 +0200, Andreas Klöckner wrote: > Hi there, > > I just spent a good hour trying to figure out a problem with modprobe > (Debian package version 3.2-pre1). My issue was that if > /etc/modprobe.conf is found, /etc/modprobe.d is not even considered, > which was not obvious to me from the manpage. Only when I looked at > the source I realized that this was the case. > > I feel that either modprobe should check both /etc/modprobe.conf and > /etc/modprobe.d, or the manpage should be updated to reflect this > behavior. I could concoct a patch for either solution, if you so > desire.
The man page should be corrected. The addition of /etc/modprobe.d was done as a fallback, to prevent a change of behaviour when it was introduced. Rusty. -- A bad analogy is like a leaky screwdriver -- Richard Braakman
