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

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Apr 5 16:23:47 UTC 2005


Chip Turner (cturner at pattern.net) said: 
> > 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?
> 
> pcspkr comes to mind.

Obviously, that should be matched by DMI and other BIOS data, and
autoloaded via hotplug and device mapping. (Or built statically.)

:)

Bill




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