* Eric Hameleers <alien@penguin1.dyndns.org> writes:

> Steve Youngs wrote:
>> I have no way of checking because my /etc/rc.d/rc.modules doesn't
>> contain the word "modprobe" in it anywhere

> Are we talking about the same Slackware then? My /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
> contains many more than 200 instances of the word 'modprobe' ....

I just edited mine and removed everything that wasn't needed.

$ grep -c modprobe /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
0

In case you're thinking that I compile everything directly into the
kernel...

$ zgrep -c \=m /proc/config.gz
208

The Linux kernel has this cool thing called `kmod'. It's main (only?)
purpose is to load modules when they are needed. With a properly
configured /etc/modprobe.conf, the vast majority of modules will
automatically load when needed without the need of explicitly calling
modprobe.


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