Re: RedHat 9 and 2.5.x support

Paul Clements (kernel@steeleye.com)
Fri, 18 Apr 2003 12:32:35 -0400 (EDT)


On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Paul Clements wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Apr 2003, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> > The last I looked modprobe.conf was a seriously deficient subset of
> > modules.conf, but I haven't d/l the latest version, so some of the
> > omissions may have been addressed. The major feature missing is (or was)
> > the lack of probe capability (and probeall).
>
> I think you can achieve the same outcome with a carefully crafted "install"
> command in modprobe.conf (granted it will be much more verbose than the
> equivalent "probe").

Actually, it's even easier than that...Rusty's included a script:

/sbin/generate-modprobe.conf

in the new modutils package that will convert modules.conf to modprobe.conf
automagically...

--
Paul

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