On 17 October 2011 09:15, Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> On Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:35:35 +0200, Florian Philipp wrote:
>
>> preup() {
>> if [ "$IFACE" = eth0 ]; then
>> ebegin "Reloading broadcom and tg3 modules"
>> modprobe -r foo bar &&
>> modprobe broadcom &&
>> modprobe tg3
>> ewend $? "Failed to reload modules"
>> fi
>> return 0
>> }
>
> This seems more elegant than a separate init script, but do you want it
> to return 0 unconditionally? If the modules fail to load, surely you want
> the attempt to bring the interface up to abort?
In my head I find it less elegant to be honest. Is it up to a network
configuration script to load the *kernel* module for the hardware?
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Regards,
Mick
