autoload of kernel modules: how?

[Mike Pepe]

Paul Howarth wrote:
> On Mon, 2005-07-18 at 19:55 +0200, Eric Tanguy wrote:
> 
>>Le lundi 18 juillet 2005 à 12:16 +0100, Paul Howarth a écrit :
>>
>>>Timothy Murphy wrote:
>>>
>>>>Paul Howarth wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>In FC4 you can create a script with a name ending in ".modules"
>>>>>in /etc/sysconfig/modules and that will get run at around the same time
>>>>>that rc.modules would be run. This is the "approved" may of doing this
>>>>>now.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Is this preferable to writing a modprobe command in rc.local ?
>>>>Is rc.local frowned on now?
>>>
>>>Depends when you want the module loaded. rc.local is executed right at 
>>>the end of the boot process, but rc.modules or 
>>>/etc/sysconfig/modules/*.modules is much earlier. If you need your 
>>>module loading for some services to start, rc.local will be too late.
>>>
>>>Paul.
>>>
>>
>>Ok what is the syntax of these *.modules files (ie if i want to load a
>>module named spca5xx i have just to add it in this file) ?
> 
> 
> It's a shell script, so you want something like:
> 
> modprobe spca5xx
> 
> 
>>You say that /etc/sysconfig/modules/*.modules is much earlier but when ?
> 
> 
> Look at /etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit - it's at around line 218.
> 
> It's just after the:
> 
> Initializing hardware... storage network audio done.
> 
> Paul.

Thanks all, the /etc/rc.modules trick works for the fc3 box. Now onto 
today's interesting find...

-Mike