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On Monday 24 March 2008, Doug Goldstein wrote: |
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> /etc/modules.autoload.d has always allowed module parameters to appear |
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> after the module name. |
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> /etc/conf.d/modules has allowed a completely different syntax requiring |
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> variables based on the module name to be set with the module parameters. |
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> This is where Roy and I have been stuck as far as an automatic |
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> conversion process. The stuff you included in the openrc-9999 ebuild was |
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> something I had sent to Roy months ago before I realized module |
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> parameters would be an issue. Looking at a swath of various |
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> /etc/modules.autoload.d/ files, I haven't come up with shell code that |
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> does the right thing everytime with all the files, which is why I've |
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> left it up to being a manual process for the user and simply documenting |
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> it. |
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expecting users to read and do it themselves is certainly a path to |
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destruction for many. while i could have written it in shell, i just did it |
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in awk. i hope you're just overstating things when you say months, because |
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FIXED:INCVS. |
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we're going to need to extend the syntax anyways to allow for |
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per-version-per-module arguments. unless openrc does that now ... Roy ? |
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-mike |
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