early-gdm redux ( I am sorry my way is better faster... for a desktop )
Bill Nottingham
notting at redhat.com
Fri Sep 14 12:53:24 UTC 2007
Jon Nettleton (jon.nettleton at gmail.com) said:
> > Sure. I just don't see what you gain by replacing a shell script that
> > loads modules... with a different shell script.
>
> I think the big win with changes like this is consistency. Right now
> there are 5 differents methods for loading modules on startup.
>
> 1) initrd. Of course this is necessary, but mkinitrd it doesn't
> respect changes made to /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist.
Really? modprobe --show-depends pulls in things from the blacklist?
Sounds like a bug.
> 3) /etc/rc.modules
Should probably be nuked - it's time for it to go.
> 4) some modules right in /etc/rc.sysinit
Already removed in CVS.
> 5) and the new guy /etc/sysconfig/modules
Not that new. It's 2 1/2 years old.
Bill
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