I've never understood how you manage kernel modules at boot time

[Robert P. J. Day]

On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Kristian Erik Hermansen wrote:

> On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 11:47 PM, Mike Oliver <moliver-fC0AHe2n+mcIvw5+aKnW+Pd9D2ou9A/h at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> > I've been looking through the documentation for modprobe and modprobe.conf
> >  nd modprobe.d and so on and I just don't understand what's supposed
> >  to be the correct, intelligent way to cause a kernel module to be loaded
> >  at boot time.  The documentation for modprobe.conf and modprobe.d all
> >  seems to be about configuring what *happens* when you invoke
> >  "modprobe my-module", but doesn't seem to say anything about what
> >  *causes* that command to be invoked at boot time.
> >
> >  Also I don't get how the "alias" command comes into this.  I've seen
> >  various howtos that talk about putting an "alias" line into one of these
> >  config files, but they don't explain just why the aliased name gets
> >  probed in the first place.
>
> If you really want to learn about the internals of Linux and security,
> you should try Hardened Linux from Scratch (HLFS).  The HLFS tutorial
> covers the older devfs and newer udev systems...
> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hlfs/view/unstable/glibc-2.6/chapter07/udev.html

at this point, is there much value in investing time boning up on
devfs?

rday
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