On Tue, Apr 05, 2005 at 02:39:53AM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 23:33 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2005 10:27:09 +0200 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm(a)ATrpms.net> wrote:
>
> > > lm_sensors and lirc* modules
> >
> > Both projects take care of this with init.d scripts.
> >
> > But there are others like ivtv. The question is not which modules,
> > there will always be some that need extra handling and even such where
> > an autodetection is not possible (since they may not mirror any
> > hardware piece, but some other functionality).
>
> So, why do init.d scripts not work for ivtv?
It's not that they won't work, it's that there's none written.
For ivtv one could go init.d (if carefully done), but this is an
overshoot. lirc and lm_sesnors have sensible things to do in
userspace, so having an init.d is OK. Having an init.d only with a
modprobe is the wrong design.
And there are other modules that need to be before any init.d scripts,
like capabilities modules whose absence will break named etc.
I'm after a generic solution. :)
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