[PATCH] support modules.alias in modprobe

Rob Landley rob at landley.net
Mon Apr 10 16:12:44 UTC 2006


On Monday 10 April 2006 5:04 am, Ignacio García Pérez wrote:
> Currently, modprobe ignores /ib/modules/whatever/modules.alias.
>
> This breaks loading of some modules in kernel 2.6.16 that have changed
> names and rely on aliases specified in the aforementioned file.
>
> The attached patch fixes the issue, plus adds include support to
> /etc/modprobe.conf.
>
> Nacho.

Applied, but we've probably hit the point where a CONFIG option to chop out 
support for modules.alias and modprobe.conf are called for...

Rob
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