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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading?
Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 16:24:56
Message-Id: 7573e9640604290918p28decf25x2d51fe3d9831f5a6@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] Modules autoloading? by Willie Wong
1 On 4/28/06, Willie Wong <wwong@×××××××××.edu> wrote:
2 > > AFAICT, at this point you have to remove the devices from
3 > > /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.alias to prevent udev from loading
4 > > them.
5 > >
6 > But if I understand this correctly, isn't modules.alias generated by
7 > depmod? And isn't module dependencies calculated during boot?
8
9 The file will be regenerated by depmod, which _may_ be run at boot
10 when /etc/init.d/modules is run by /sbin/rc. The init script runs
11 modules-update, which will run depmod if /etc/modprobe.conf is newer
12 than /lib/modules/`uname -r`/modules.dep.
13
14 -Richard
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