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From: "Stephan Müller" <fruktopus@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Loading, modules, via, /ec/conf.d/modules, minimalisticly
Date: Sun, 10 May 2015 11:34:09 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <554F2611.2010905@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150510091208.GA4144@solfire>

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


  reply	other threads:[~2015-05-10  9:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-05-10  9:12 [gentoo-user] Loading, modules, via, /ec/conf.d/modules, minimalisticly Meino.Cramer
2015-05-10  9:34 ` Stephan Müller [this message]
2015-05-10  9:48   ` Meino.Cramer

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