Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422868AbWBASjk (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:39:40 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422869AbWBASjk (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:39:40 -0500 Received: from smtp.osdl.org ([65.172.181.4]:12452 "EHLO smtp.osdl.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422866AbWBASji (ORCPT ); Wed, 1 Feb 2006 13:39:38 -0500 Date: Wed, 1 Feb 2006 10:39:31 -0800 From: Stephen Hemminger To: Krzysztof Halasa Cc: md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri), netdev@vger.kernel.org, lkml Subject: Re: [RFC] Backward compatibility and WAN netdev configuration Message-ID: <20060201103931.08ad581d@dxpl.pdx.osdl.net> In-Reply-To: References: <20060201144917.GA7644@wonderland.linux.it> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.9.100 (GTK+ 2.6.10; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) X-Face: &@E+xe?c%:&e4D{>f1O<&U>2qwRREG5!}7R4;D<"NO^UI2mJ[eEOA2*3>(`Th.yP,VDPo9$ /`~cw![cmj~~jWe?AHY7D1S+\}5brN0k*NE?pPh_'_d>6;XGG[\KDRViCfumZT3@[ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 907 Lines: 24 On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 19:33:47 +0100 Krzysztof Halasa wrote: > md@Linux.IT (Marco d'Itri) writes: > > > Why you cannot support autoloading the modules when a specific protocol > > is needed? > > I probably could but it would complicate things a bit - currently only > the protocol module knows about existence of its protocol. > > I will look at it, though. Thanks. The modern way is to not have any entries in modprobe.conf, and do all the module loading via kernel module_aliases. Modprobe.conf is then reserved for handling workarounds for special cases -- Stephen Hemminger OSDL http://developer.osdl.org/~shemminger - 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/