Re: CONFIG_KMOD in x86_64/defconfig (was Re: iptables is complaining with bogus unknown error 18446744073709551615)

[Maurice Volaski <mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu>]

>On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 11:41:40AM -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote:
>>  >On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:12:38PM -0400, Maurice Volaski wrote:
>>  >> Automatic kernel module loading! That is an option and it's off by
>>  >> default. When it's off, attempts to load kernel modules are ignored
>>  >> internally, and that's why iptables was failing. It tried to load
>>  >> xt_tcpudp, but was ignored by the kernel.
>>  >What do you mean by "it's an option" and "is off by default".  I would
>>  >claim that any major linux distribution that I've seen in the last ten
>>  >years has support for module auto loading (enabled by default).
>>
>>  Distribution vendors are free to change it to whatever they want, 
>>I guess, but it's OFF by
>>  default in the official kernel (.config).
>
>apparently architecture-specific:
>
>grep KMOD arch/i386/defconfig
>CONFIG_KMOD=y
>
>grep KMOD arch/x86_64/defconfig
>CONFIG_KMOD is not set
>
>don't know why x86_64 turns it off by default.  the help message says

A typo, perhaps? If so, won't be for much longer: 
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=6451
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Maurice Volaski, mvolaski@aecom.yu.edu
Computing Support, Rose F. Kennedy Center
Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University