[OE-core] update-modules, do we need it anymore?

[Laurentiu Palcu]

On 01/10/2013 03:45 PM, Bruce Ashfield wrote:
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> On Tue, Jan 8, 2013 at 9:41 AM, Laurentiu Palcu
> <laurentiu.palcu at intel.com <mailto:laurentiu.palcu at intel.com>> wrote:
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>     Hi all,
> 
>     While working on making all postinstalls run on host, I saw that we
>     still use update-modules script. However, neither the kmod modprobe nor
>     the busybox one read /etc/modules.conf file anymore which is created by
>     update-modules script. Both scan /etc/modprobe.d/*.conf files.
> 
>     So, does anybody know why do we still have it around? Most modern
>     distributions declared update-modules as obsolete and /etc/modules.conf
>     doesn't exist anymore. Am I missing something?
> 
> 
> I've been using the autoload functionality (not heavily, but from time
> to time) 
> that is currently tied to update-modules. I did a quick scan of the
> alternatives
> in oe-core, and didn't immediately see that the same thing is possible via
> kmod. Is that the case, or am I missing something as well ?
This autoload functionality seems to be provided by
/etc/init.d/modutils.sh which is explicitly called from update-modules
script. However, modutils.sh resides in modutils-initscripts.bb recipe.
So, I personally see not use for update-modules anymore...

Thanks,
Laurentiu
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> Cheers,
> 
> Bruce
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>     Thanks,
>     Laurentiu
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