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From: Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>
To: linux cbon <linuxcbon@gmail.com>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: how to have the kernel do udev's job and autoload the right modules ?
Date: Tue, 05 May 2015 01:24:40 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5547FFB8.5050007@nod.at> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAJ-LWjMMKF1hbGUxxLPXPvq++hpCyFb7+VtMu8jLO66j=mv6cw@mail.gmail.com>

Am 05.05.2015 um 01:14 schrieb linux cbon:
> On Mon, May 4, 2015 at 7:21 PM, Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at> wrote:
>> You can build in the needed modules or just use udev...
> 
> for example, I need these modules to be loaded automatically by the kernel,
> but they are not : r8169 , radeon , snd_hda_codec etc.
> Why doesn't the kernel do it, instead of using a userspace program like udev ?
> Sorry if my question is silly.

Because in some cases you want to blacklist modules, have special parameters for
them etc...
It is a typical "kernel offers mechanism and userspace policy" thing.

If you want them blindly loaded add them to your local.rc or build them in.

Thanks,
//richard


  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-04 23:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-04  5:31 how to have the kernel do udev's job and autoload the right modules ? linux cbon
2015-05-04  7:34 ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-04 17:27   ` linux cbon
2015-05-04 18:21     ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-04 18:30       ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-05-04 23:14       ` linux cbon
2015-05-04 23:24         ` Richard Weinberger [this message]
2015-05-05 18:08           ` linux cbon
2015-05-05 22:26             ` Ken Moffat
2015-05-06  0:54               ` linuxcbon linuxcbon
2015-05-06 16:55                 ` Ken Moffat
2015-05-06 17:09                   ` linuxcbon linuxcbon
2015-05-06 18:40                     ` Ken Moffat
2015-05-06 18:53                     ` David Lang
2015-05-06 20:34                       ` linuxcbon linuxcbon
2015-05-06 20:36                         ` Richard Weinberger
2015-05-06 20:49                         ` David Lang
2015-05-07 12:04                           ` Austin S Hemmelgarn
2015-05-07 19:19                             ` David Lang

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