[gentoo-dev] Re: rfc: /etc/init.d/modules loading modules defined in files

[Martin Vaeth <martin@mvath.de>]

William Hubbs <williamh@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> but I'm open to making the behaviour compatible
> with what systemd does

Since openrc already supports tmpfiles.d,
support for modules-load.d would be natural.
In fact, this is already done for quite a while in

https://github.com/vaeth/firewall-mv/blob/master/openrc/conf.d/modules

The last line supports modules-load.d:

modules=$(sed -n -e '/^[^;#]/p' /etc/modules-load.d/*.conf \
	/usr/lib/modules-load.d/*.conf 2>/dev/null || : )

For compatibility with other init systems one should perhaps not
extend the format of modules-load.d: If one also wants to e.g.
support args for modules, this should perhaps be done in
a separate directory. /etc/modprobe.d already exists for this,
but one might still source another directory which contains
only files added to /etc/conf.d/modules