Proper way to autoload modules (/etc/rc.modules)?

[Arjan van de Ven]

On Mon, 2005-04-04 at 00:34 -0400, seth vidal wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-03 at 21:27 -0700, Pete Zaitcev wrote:
> > On Sun, 3 Apr 2005 13:26:31 +0200 Axel Thimm <Axel.Thimm at ATrpms.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > what is the recommended way to automatically load some modules upon
> > > bootup?
> > 
> > I am not aware of a reason to want that aside from the special exception
> > of USB (which should be built into kernels, really). Do you have an
> > example in mind?
> 
> building usb into kernels seems like a good way to break all laptops.
> 
> since many of them won't sleep without removing the usb moudles.

the fact that usb currently has a broken resume method doesn't mean that
it shouldn't in principle be built into the kernel. 
In fact, I suspect that by having a workaround available fewer people
report that bug to the USB people resulting in it never getting fixed...
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