From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Agri Subject: Re: howto configuring kernel and modules.conf for automatic loading of ide-scsi Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2004 14:06:56 +0300 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <20040125140656.023f0ced.agri@desnol.ru> References: <20040125041110.22704715.agri@desnol.ru> <5.1.0.14.1.20040124202304.01f31308@celine> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.1.20040124202304.01f31308@celine> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org thanks for answers, but.... the only thing i get: there is no way to configure loading of ide-scsi "ON DEMAND". Am i right? Agri On Sat, 24 Jan 2004 20:31:06 -0800 Ray Olszewski wrote: > At 04:11 AM 1/25/2004 +0300, Agri wrote: > >i'm confused with module loading. > > > >i have cdrw and configure ide-scsi emulation for it. > >doing "modprobe ide-scsi; mount /dev/scd0" is fine. > > > >but, how to configure automatic loading of ide-scsi? > >it seems that just "touching" for /dev/scd0 do not > >cause kmod to exec modprobe at all. What to do? > > You load them as part of the boot/init process. Exactly how you do that > depends quite a bit on which Linux distrobution you are using. The advice > someone else posted, for example, looked like it was for Slackware. In > Debian, you'd add the module names to /etc/modules . Probably the > assortment of distros descended from Red Hat has yet another procedure for > this. > > >i think that loading several modules at boottime are not the best idea, > >in that case - why do i use modules at all? > > There are many reasons to use modules. The specific reasons depend on the > specific modules in question. In this instance, though, you should feel > free to recompile your kernel to incorporate ide-scsi support (of course, > also compiling in the other modules that ide-scsi needs in order to function). > > You are entitled to your opinion ... it is your system after all ... but > personally I think it is smart to load during init, or compile in, support > for devices that hold filesystems. > > > > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs