modprobe.conf: what should be in there.... ?

[Tom London]

On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 11:20 AM, Bill Nottingham <notting at redhat.com> wrote:
> Tom London (selinux at gmail.com) said:
>  > So I'm curious..... what actually needs to be in modprobe.conf?
>  >
>  > Here is the one currently installed:
>  >
>  > alias scsi_hostadapter ahci
>  > options snd cards_limit=8
>  > alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
>  > alias snd-card-1 snd-usb-audio
>  > options snd-hda-intel index=0
>  > options snd-usb-audio index=1
>  > remove snd-hda-intel { /sbin/salsa -s 0 >/dev/null 2>&1 || : ; };
>  > /sbin/modprobe -r --ignore-remove snd-hda-intel
>  > alias eth0 e1000
>  >
>  > Are any of these really needed?
>
>  No. The remove line for snd-hda-uintel actually does something useful,
>  but considering you're very unlikely to actually remove the module...
>
>  Bill

Cool.  I renamed /etc/modprobe.conf to /etc/modprobe.conf.last and rebooted.

Haven't noticed any issues: network is up (as eth0 even!), and
pulseaudio/sound came up as well.

One fewer thing to maintain is always good!

I don't remember who/when the "scsi_hostadapter" line got inserted,
but I'm presuming the new stuff will "just work" with USB hard drives,
etc.

Thanks!

tom

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Tom London