On Fri,15.May.09, 22:04:24, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > I started seeing this message during boot time, after some upgrade. > > These are the messages: > > Fri May 15 21:27:02 2009: Configuring network interfaces...WARNING: All > config files need .conf: /etc/modprobe.d/irda, it will be ignored in a > future release. > Fri May 15 21:27:03 2009: WARNING: All config files need .conf: > /etc/modprobe.d/nsc-ircc, it will be ignored in a future release. > Fri May 15 21:27:03 2009: WARNING: All config files need .conf: > /etc/modprobe.d/padlock-aes, it will be ignored in a future release. > Fri May 15 21:27:03 2009: WARNING: All config files need .conf: > /etc/modprobe.d/padlock-sha, it will be ignored in a future release. > Fri May 15 21:27:03 2009: WARNING: All config files need .conf: > /etc/modprobe.d/intel_rng, it will be ignored in a future release. > > My question is since I dont find these packages to belong to any > package, what should I do about them? And what is their purpose > actually? To forbid modules from loading into the kernel? Why? What > happens if I delete them?
I can't find those files in either lenny, squeeze or sid, is this a new install or dist-upgraded since before lenny? I'd say those files are just cruft and it should be safe to delete them. I would back them up first though, just in case. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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