[gentoo-user] Re: How do kernel modules load automatically during boot?

[walt]

On 04/22/2015 12:45 PM, Rich Freeman wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 22, 2015 at 3:17 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
>>
>> What mystifies me is how those three kernel modules managed to get
>> loaded while all the others didn't. (It's the same three modules every
>> time, BTW.)
>>
>> I grepped through /etc for the names of those modules, thinking maybe
>> I listed them in modprobe.conf.d sometime in the past, but no, those
>> modules are not listed anywhere in /etc, nor are any of the others
>> listed either.
>
> Try grepping /lib/udev for the names of those modules.

Thanks Rich and Canek (and a big kiss to Volker, too) for your replies.

I just spotted this question about a warning that I'm now seeing from
my "bad" machine, but sadly there are no replies:

https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-996544-start-0.html

The lesson seems to be that "big" updates are risky, and I should stop
wasting my time on this particular big update and start from a newer
version of amd64.

I was startled just now by a comment my from my wife: "I can't believe
how much time you've wasted on your silly linux.  That computer is too
old to run linux -- you should just throw it out and buy a new one."

Guys, listen up:  when your wife suddenly advises you to treat yourself
to a new toy -- be afraid -- be very afraid.  I'm afraid she's about to
say something else that will postpone my upcoming retirement for a long
time :(