On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:33:47 +0100 Krzysztof Halasa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > > Why you cannot support autoloading the modules when a specific protocol > > is needed? > > I probably could but it would complicate things a bit - currently only > the protocol module knows about existence of its protocol. > > I will look at it, though. Thanks. The modern way is to not have any entries in modprobe.conf, and do all the module loading via kernel module_aliases. Modprobe.conf is then reserved for handling workarounds for special cases -- Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netdev" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html