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Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:13:10 +0200
From: Eduard Bloch <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: no warning in the manpage
reopen 269305
thanks
That is not true! I have just read the modprobe.conf manpage and there
was no good hint, no visible warning about that UNEXPECTED behaviour of
the new modprobe. There may be a side comment somewhere, but it is NOT
documented well enough.
Really, I expected that a tool like update-modules
still reads /etc/modprobe.d and created /etc/modprobe.conf, and I spent
a lot of time figuring out that this is not the case (and even worse,
some unknown package has silently created that file).
What I expect as user (and average admin), is a proper notice:
- separate paragraph in the modprobe and modprobe.conf manpages!
- a warning appearing when the init script starts and modprobe.conf
exist and something in modprobe.d/ exists as well. Eg.
WARNING: modprobe.conf exists, modprobe.d/ contents are ignored (see
modprobe.conf(5) for details, /etc/default/module-init-tools to hide warnings)
Regards,
Eduard.
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Message-ID: <email address hidden>
Date: Sun, 12 Sep 2004 11:13:10 +0200
From: Eduard Bloch <email address hidden>
To: <email address hidden>
Subject: no warning in the manpage
reopen 269305
thanks
That is not true! I have just read the modprobe.conf manpage and there
was no good hint, no visible warning about that UNEXPECTED behaviour of
the new modprobe. There may be a side comment somewhere, but it is NOT
documented well enough.
Really, I expected that a tool like update-modules
still reads /etc/modprobe.d and created /etc/modprobe.conf, and I spent
a lot of time figuring out that this is not the case (and even worse,
some unknown package has silently created that file).
What I expect as user (and average admin), is a proper notice:
- separate paragraph in the modprobe and modprobe.conf manpages!
- a warning appearing when the init script starts and modprobe.conf
exist and something in modprobe.d/ exists as well. Eg.
WARNING: modprobe.conf exists, modprobe.d/ contents are ignored (see module- init-tools to hide warnings)
modprobe.conf(5) for details, /etc/default/
Regards,
Eduard.
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