On 26 November 2011 15:50, Olivier Blin <[email protected]> wrote: >> isn't a patch just for this a little overhead? >> why not just prepends its name with a numeric value in /etc/modprobe.d? > > Because it does not have the same meaning. > > Putting a modprobe.d file for ldetect aliases mean that they can not be > overriden. All alias matches from modprobe.d files will be loaded. > > If the ldetect-lst file is parsed from another conf files "group", as my > patch is doing, only the alias match from modprobe.d files will be > loaded if found.
You should add this documentation in the patch header...
