From: Meino.Cramer@gmx.de
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Loading, modules, via, /ec/conf.d/modules, minimalisticly
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 11:48:33 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20150510094833.GB4144@solfire> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <554F2611.2010905@gmail.com>
Stephan Müller <fruktopus@gmail.com> [15-05-10 11:36]:
> Am 10.05.2015 um 11:12 schrieb Meino.Cramer@gmx.de:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I need to load some extra modules "manually" when
> > my Linux box boots to get access to an embedded
> > system. These modules need to be added to
> > /etc/conf.d/modules for various reasons.
> >
> > The modules are:
> >
> > ipt_MASQUERADE 1037 2
> > nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4 1785 1 ipt_MASQUERADE
> > iptable_nat 1578 1
> > nf_nat_ipv4 4811 1 iptable_nat
> > nf_nat 11442 2 nf_nat_ipv4,nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4
> > nf_conntrack_ipv4 11964 1
> > nf_defrag_ipv4 1395 1 nf_conntrack_ipv4
> > nf_conntrack 61998 4 nf_nat,nf_nat_ipv4,nf_nat_masquerade_ipv4,nf_conntrack_ipv4
> >
> >
> > How can I distinguish those modules from this list, which need
> > to be listed in /etc/conf.d/modules from those, which get pulled in by
> > these?
> >
> > Best regards
> > mcc
> >
>
> First it does no harm to load modules directly which would be pulled in as dependency anyways.
> From the the above lsmod you can leave out those, which have a nonempty used by column. That would be
>
> ipt_MASQUERADE
> iptable_nat
> nf_conntrack_ipv4
>
> To get more complete information on dependencies you can look at
>
> $ modinfo ipt_MASQUERADE
>
> etc. However to get full information you have to look at
>
> $ cat /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/modules.dep
>
> This gives a complete list of dependencies.
>
>
> ~frukto
>
Hi Stephan,
thanks for the informations! :)
Best regards,
Meino
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2015-05-10 9:12 [gentoo-user] Loading, modules, via, /ec/conf.d/modules, minimalisticly Meino.Cramer
2015-05-10 9:34 ` Stephan Müller
2015-05-10 9:48 ` Meino.Cramer [this message]
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