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Date: Tue, 04 Jun 2002 19:27:10 -0400
From: Mark Hounschell <dmarkh@cfl.rr.com>
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To: Austin Gonyou <austin@digitalroadkill.net>
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Subject: Re: Load kernel module automatically
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Austin Gonyou wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 2002-06-04 at 17:27, Jan Hudec wrote:
> > On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 03:38:06PM -0400, Michael Zhu wrote:
> > > Hi, I built a kernel module. I can load it into the
> > > kernle using insmod command. But each time when I
> > > reboot my computer I couldn't find it any more. I mean
> > > I need to use the insmod to load the module each time
> > > I reboot the computer. How can I modify the
> > > configuration so that the Linux OS can load my module
> > > automatically during reboot? I need to copy my module
> > > to the following directory?
> > >   /lib/modules/2.4.7-10/
> >
> > Kernel does not seek for modules to load in any way. Actually, in usual
> > installation there are tons of modules compiled an mostly unused. You
> > must put the insmod command (or better modprobe command) somewhere in
> > the init scripts. Since I expect your installation is RedHat (the kernel
> > version looks like a RedHat one), there should already be one a it
> > should be loading all modules listed in /etc/modules.conf (not sure abou
> > the exact name - I don't have RedHat).
> 
> Isn't that what modules.conf (conf.modules on some) is for though? To
> have lists of available devices and load modules if their services are
> used?(i.e. ifup eth0, but eth0 doesn't exist at boot time, so ifup calls
> a utility that loads the module, then ifup continues to run)
> 
The utility is built into the kernel, it's called kmod and uses /etc/modules.conf
as it's config file....


Mark
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