On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 15:29:45 -0800, Jarod Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 21 February 2005 14:20, Jason Kraftcheck wrote: > > I use Debian rather than RH/Fedora, so perhaps this isn't possible for > > you. But why mess with all this aliasing stuff to load modules on > > demand? I thought that was for seldom-used drivers to save some memory, > > etc. That obviously isn't the case for a lirc driver on a mythtv box. > > On Debian, I just add lirc_i2c to /etc/modules. It is then > > unconditionally loaded early in the boot sequence. I would be surprised > > if RH/Fedora did not have an equivalent mechanism. > > Things changed quite a bit with FC3 and udev. Simply having the alias defs in > modprobe.conf (or modules.conf w/2.4 kernels) was sufficient to get the > modules loaded when needed with earlier FC/RH versions. There's been no RH/FC > "unconditionally load this" feature in the past, to the best of my knowledge. > > I will say that I do rather like the Debian way of handling this. I have yet > to find the "right" way to do this for FC3, but I'm in the process of hacking > something into rc.sysinit that should do the job, based solely on the > contents of modprobe.conf, modeled after the way FC3 loads modules for sound > cards. And to confirm, I just checked, everything now auto-loads perfectly on > my test box with a few additions to rc.sysinit. Patch attached for those who > care to try it out. > > -- > Jarod Wilson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
Worked like a charm for me. Thanks Jarod! -Garry
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