[gentoo-user] Recent 'breakage' of kernel module auto-loading?

[walt]

For months I've been using apps that need the tun and fuse kernel modules,
and I've never needed to modprobe those two modules until about a week ago.
The modules were loaded automagically when those apps started up. (I never
understood how that happened, BTW.)

Suddenly those two apps won't start until I manually load those kernel
modules first.  Anyone else seeing this new behavior?