Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752023AbbEDXYv (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2015 19:24:51 -0400 Received: from a.ns.miles-group.at ([95.130.255.143]:65275 "EHLO radon.swed.at" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750952AbbEDXYm (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 May 2015 19:24:42 -0400 Message-ID: <5547FFB8.5050007@nod.at> Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 01:24:40 +0200 From: Richard Weinberger User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux cbon CC: LKML Subject: Re: how to have the kernel do udev's job and autoload the right modules ? References: <5547B89B.5070502@nod.at> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 937 Lines: 23 Am 05.05.2015 um 01:14 schrieb linux cbon: > On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote: >> You can build in the needed modules or just use udev... > > for example, I need these modules to be loaded automatically by the kernel, > but they are not : r8169 , radeon , snd_hda_codec etc. > Why doesn't the kernel do it, instead of using a userspace program like udev ? > Sorry if my question is silly. Because in some cases you want to blacklist modules, have special parameters for them etc... It is a typical "kernel offers mechanism and userspace policy" thing. If you want them blindly loaded add them to your local.rc or build them in. Thanks, //richard -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/