On Thu, Jan 10, 2013 at 8:59 AM, Laurentiu Palcu <[email protected]>wrote:
> > > 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... > I don't have any use for the rest of update-modules, so I don't disagree on that point. I'd just like to see a form of autoload support be continued if anything happens to update-modules. But since update-modules isn't mandatory, I suppose nothing drastic will happen to it regardless, but having a modern equivalent would be nice :) Bruce > > 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" > -- "Thou shalt not follow the NULL pointer, for chaos and madness await thee at its end"
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