[plug] Modprobe question

[Jim Householder]

Carl Gherardi wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:06:05 +0800, Mike Holland
> <myk.list at westnet.com.au> wrote:
> 
>>Brad Campbell wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>which the system seems happy about.  And yet I still have to do the
>>>>"modprobe advansys" command after booting.
>>>>Is there something I am missing to make this all happen automagically?
>>>
>>>
>>>Don't know about Fedora. In debian I'd
>>>echo advansys >> /etc/modules
>>>
>>>Brad
>>
>>With a 2.6 kernel, you might want:
>>
>># /etc/modprobe.preload: kernel modules to load at boot time.
>>
>>Of course, you could always add the "modprobe advansys" command to
>>/etc/rc.local .
>>
> 
> 
I'm using MDK 10.1, and have found the following:
/etc/rc.d/rc.sysinit invokes /etc/rc.d/rc.modules
    which invokes modprobe for each module name found in /etc/modules.

In my case, /etc/modules contains bttv and nvidia.

The comment in rc.sysinit indicates invoking rc.modules is for backward 
compatibility with VARs, what ever that is, which says to me it is 
subject to change.

HTH
Jim