On Thu, Apr 07, 2005 at 10:11:49PM -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
I'm sending you round to gather examples because while it's
intuitively
obvious that /etc/rc.modules is useful, it really has no reason to exist.
The capabilities modules were mentioned a couple times, e.g. any
module that has no detectable hardware or no hardware at all mapped
to.
Yes, we all used it at one time or other, as a shortcut while a
proper
solution was not available. I think I have a box which loads vt8231
from /etc/rc.modules myself. That's all fine, and perhaps we ought to
keep it around forever. But making it more legitimate with /etc/modules.d
or some such has no reason.
If you don't create a proper mechanism to channel these few issues you
will have them wildering around in places where they do not belong. Is
that really better?
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