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From: William Hubbs <williamh@g.o>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/init.d/modules loading modules defined in files
Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:17:14
Message-Id: 20160817001653.GB18485@linux1.gaikai.biz
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] rfc: /etc/init.d/modules loading modules defined in files by Matthias Maier
1 On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 06:59:32PM -0500, Matthias Maier wrote:
2 >
3 > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016, at 18:49 CDT, Matthias Maier <tamiko@g.o> wrote:
4 >
5 > > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016, at 18:20 CDT, William Hubbs <williamh@g.o> wrote:
6 > >
7 > >> All,
8 > >>
9 > >> I have received a request to implement a feature in OpenRC to allow
10 > >> multiple software packages to drop files in a directory, /etc/modules.d
11 > >> for example, which would define modules the /etc/init.d/modules script
12 > >> would load.
13 >
14 > One more point, /etc/modules.d was used back in the old update-modules
15 > times. So, maybe we should avoid the directory due to historic reasons
16 > [1].
17
18 Sure, the directory name was just an example.
19
20 I was thinking of doing something a little more elaborate so that I
21 could support all of the module/version/etc combinations documented in
22 /etc/conf.d/modules, but I'm open to making the behaviour compatible
23 with what systemd does; that would be a good case probably for doing it
24 that way.
25
26 William

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[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: /etc/init.d/modules loading modules defined in files Martin Vaeth <martin@×××××.de>