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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