On 01/10/2013 03:45 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote: > > > > On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Laurentiu Palcu > <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > > Hi all, > > While working on making all postinstalls run on host, I saw that we > still use update-modules script. However, neither the kmod modprobe nor > the busybox one read /etc/modules.conf file anymore which is created by > update-modules script. Both scan /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf files. > > So, does anybody know why do we still have it around? Most modern > distributions declared update-modules as obsolete and /etc/modules.conf > doesn't exist anymore. Am I missing something? > > > I've been using the autoload functionality (not heavily, but from time > to time) > that is currently tied to update-modules. I did a quick scan of the > alternatives > in oe-core, and didn't immediately see that the same thing is possible via > kmod. Is that the case, or am I missing something as well ? This autoload functionality seems to be provided by /etc/init.d/modutils.sh which is explicitly called from update-modules script. However, modutils.sh resides in modutils-initscripts.bb recipe. So, I personally see not use for update-modules anymore...
Thanks, Laurentiu > > Cheers, > > Bruce > > > > Thanks, > Laurentiu > > _______________________________________________ > Openembedded-core mailing list > [email protected] > <mailto:[email protected]> > http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core > > > > > -- > "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await > thee at its end" _______________________________________________ Openembedded-core mailing list [email protected] http://lists.linuxtogo.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openembedded-core
